100 Quotes
"A universal law of economics says the moment something becomes free and ubiquitous, its position in the economic equation suddenly inverts."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive. A vigilant, eyes-wide-open embrace works much better."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The 12 forces are Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"because the cycle of obsolescence is accelerating (the average lifespan of a phone app is a mere 30 days!), you won’t have time to master anything before it is displaced, so you will remain in the newbie mode forever."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"every document in the world should be a footnote to some other document, and computers could make the links between them visible and permanent."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Now we are transitioning into the third age of computation. Pages and browsers are far less important. Today the prime units are flows and streams."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"We tag and “like” and “favorite” moments in the streams. The foundational units of this third digital regime, then, are flows, tags, and clouds."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"When copies are superabundant, they become worthless. Instead, stuff that can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable. When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Why would anyone ever pay for something they could get for free? And when they pay for something they could get for free, what are they purchasing?"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Generative qualities add value to free copies and therefore are something that can be sold."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"What counts are not the number of copies but the number of ways a copy can be linked, manipulated, annotated, tagged, highlighted, bookmarked, translated, and enlivened by other media."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"What those kinds of books have always wanted was to be annotated, marked up, underlined, bookmarked, summarized, cross-referenced, hyperlinked, shared, and talked to."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"More important, with my permission, my highlights can be shared with other readers, and I can read the highlights of a particular friend, scholar, or critic. We can even filter the most popular highlights of all readers, and in this manner begin to read a book in a new way"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Reading becomes social. With screens we can share not just the titles of books we are reading, but our reactions and notes as we read them."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"We might subscribe to the marginalia feed from someone we respect, so we get not only their reading list but their marginalia—highlights, notes, questions, musings."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Over the next three decades, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for any notion in the library."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Once snippets, articles, and pages of books become ubiquitous, shuffleable, and transferable, users will earn prestige and perhaps income for curating an excellent collection."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The empty white spaces of our collective ignorance are highlighted, while the golden peaks of our knowledge are drawn with completeness. This degree of authority is only rarely achieved in scholarship today, but it will become routine."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The status of a new creation is determined not by the rating given to it by critics but by the degree to which it is linked to the rest of the world."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Possession is not as important as it once was. Accessing is more important than ever."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"To access a service, a customer is often committing to it in a far stronger way than when he or she purchases an item."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"the long-term trend in our modern lives is that most goods and services will be short-term use. Therefore most goods and services are candidates for rental and sharing."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"At almost every level of a platform, sharing is the default—even if it is just the rules of competition. Your success hinges on the success of others."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Ultimately the chief reason to put things onto the cloud is to share their data deeply. Woven together, the bits are made much smarter and more powerful than they could possibly be alone."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"As innovation expert Larry Keeley once observed: “No one is as smart as everyone.”"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Editors are the middle people—or what are called “curators” today—the professionals between a creator and the audience."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Intermediates of some type are needed to shape the cloud of creativity that boils up from the crowd. This hybrid of user-generated and editor-enhanced is quite common."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The largest, fastest growing, most profitable companies in 2050 will be companies that will have figured out how to harness aspects of sharing that are invisible and unappreciated today."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Anything that can be shared can be shared better, faster, easier, longer, and in a million more ways than we currently realize."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Way back in 1971 Herbert Simon, a Nobel Prize–winning social scientist, observed, “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The maximum potential attention is therefore fixed. Its production is inherently limited while everything else is becoming abundant. Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"all new technologies derive from a combination of existing technologies. Modern technologies are combinations of earlier primitive technologies that have been rearranged and remixed."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"We don’t have the equivalent of a hyperlink for film yet. With true screen fluency, I’d be able to cite specific frames of a film or specific items in a frame."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Anonymity enables the occasional whistle-blower and can protect the persecuted fringe and political outcasts. But if anonymity is present in any significant quantity, it will poison the system."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Computer scientist J. Storrs Hall writes: “If there is enough of something, it is possible, indeed not unusual, for it to have properties not exhibited at all in small, isolated examples."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"All of us—every one of us—will be endless newbies in the future simply trying to keep up."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"First, most of the important technologies that will dominate life 30 years from now have not yet been invented, so naturally you’ll be a newbie to them."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Second, because the new technology requires endless upgrades, you will remain in the newbie state."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Third, because the cycle of obsolescence is accelerating (the average lifespan of a phone app is a mere 30 days!), you won’t have time to master anything before it is displaced, so you will remain in the newbie mode forever."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"He was certain that every document in the world should be a footnote to some other document, and computers could make the links between them visible and permanent."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Scribbling on index cards, he sketched out complicated notions of transferring authorship back to creators and tracking payments as readers hopped along networks of documents, in what he called the “docuverse.”"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Our job is to make machines that think different—to create alien intelligences."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Today the prime units are flows and streams."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The foundational units of this third digital regime, then, are flows, tags, and clouds."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Rivers of free copies have undermined the established order. In this new supersaturated digital universe of infinite free digital duplication, copies are so ubiquitous, so cheap—free, in fact—that the only things truly valuable are those that cannot be copied."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance. Trust cannot be reproduced in bulk."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"There are a number of other qualities similar to trust that are difficult to copy and thus become valuable in this cloud economy."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"In a real sense, these uncopyable values are things that are “better than free.” Free is good, but these are better since you’ll pay for them."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"I call these qualities “generatives.”"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated at the time of the transaction. A generative thing cannot be copied, cloned, stored, and warehoused. A generative cannot be faked or replicated. It is generated uniquely, for that particular exchange, in real time."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. What counts is how well the work flows."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Almost anything that is solid can be made a little bit fluid, and anything fluid can be embedded into solidness."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Fixed. Rare. Free. Ubiquitous. Flowing. Sharing. Opening. Becoming."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Ebooks today lack the fungibility of the ur-text of screening: Wikipedia."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"I can extract those highlights (with some effort today) and reread my selection of the most important or memorable parts."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"More important, with my permission, my highlights can be shared with other readers, and I can read the highlights of a particular friend, scholar, or critic."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"We can even filter the most popular highlights of all readers, and in this manner begin to read a book in a new way."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"This gives a larger audience access to the precious marginalia of another author’s close reading of a book (with their permission), a boon that previously only rare-book collectors witnessed."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Reading becomes social."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"With screens we can share not just the titles of books we are reading, but our reactions and notes as we read them."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"We can add a link from a phrase in the book we are reading to a contrasting phrase in another book we’ve read, from a word in a passage to an obscure dictionary, from a scene in a book to a similar scene in a movie."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"o when a person cites a particular passage, a two-way link connects the comment to the passage and the passage to the comment."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Even a minor good work could accumulate a wiki-like set of critical comments tightly bound to the actual text."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The conventional vision of the book’s future assumes that books will remain isolated items, independent from one another, just as they are on the shelves in your public library."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"In the new world of ebooks and etexts, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Much better would be a link to a specific passage in another passage in a work, a technical feat not yet possible. But when we can link deeply into documents at the resolution of a sentence, and have those links go two ways, we’ll have networked books."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"This tangle of relationships is precisely what gives Wikipedia—and the web—its immense force. Wikipedia is the first networked book."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for any notion in the library."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"We’ll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of intertwined parts and related entities, past and present."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The universal networked library of all books will cultivate a new sense of authority."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"If you can truly incorporate all texts—past and present in all languages—on a particular subject, then you can have a clearer sense of what we as a civilization, a species, do and don’t know. The empty white spaces of our collective ignorance are highlighted, while the golden peaks of our knowledge are drawn with completeness."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"For a long time there were two basic ways to organize human work"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Recently a third way to organize work has emerged: the platform. A platform is a foundation created by a firm that lets other firms build products and services upon it. It is neither market nor firm, but something new."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Levels of highly interdependent products and services form an “ecosystem” that rests upon the platform."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The platform’s job is to make sure it makes money (and adds value!) whether the parts cooperate or compete."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The web is hyperlinked documents; the cloud is hyperlinked data. Ultimately the chief reason to put things onto the cloud is to share their data deeply. Woven together, the bits are made much smarter and more powerful than they could possibly be alone."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"As we increase dematerialization, decentralization, simultaneity, platforms, and the cloud—as we increase all those at once, access will continue to displace ownership."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Groups of people start off simply sharing with a minimum of coordination, and then progress to cooperation, then to collaboration, and finally to collectivism. At each step of this socialism, the amount of additional coordination required enlarges."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Instead of money, the peer producers who create these products and services gain credit, status, reputation, enjoyment, satisfaction, and experience."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The dream of many companies is to graduate from making products to creating a platform."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"they have to act more like governments than companies in keeping opportunities “flat” and equitable, and hierarchy to a minimum."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Anything that can be shared—thoughts, emotions, money, health, time—will be shared in the right conditions, with the right benefits."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Anything that can be shared can be shared better, faster, easier, longer, and in a million more ways than we currently realize. At this point in our history, sharing something that has not been shared before, or in a new way, is the surest way to increase its value."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"You get stuck at a lower than optimal peak because you behave as if you have arrived at the top, ignoring the adjacent environment."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"The more effective the “more good stuff like this” filter is, the more important it becomes to alloy it with other types of filters."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”"
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Paul Romer, an economist at New York University who specializes in the theory of economic growth, says real sustainable economic growth does not stem from new resources but from existing resources that are rearranged to make them more valuable. Growth comes from remixing."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"Footnotes, invented in about the 12th century, allow tangential information to be displayed outside the linear argument of the main text."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"However, in every system that I have experienced where anonymity becomes common, the system fails. Communities saturated with anonymity will either self-destruct or shift from the purely anonymous to the pseudo-anonymous, as in eBay, where you have a traceable identity behind a persistent invented nickname."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"As a trace element in vanishingly small doses, it’s good, even essential for the system. Anonymity enables the occasional whistle-blower and can protect the persecuted fringe and political outcasts. But if anonymity is present in any significant quantity, it will poison the system."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"With the right tools, it turns out the collaborative community can outpace the same number of ambitious individuals competing."
— Blas Moros
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole"A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking."
— Blas Moros
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