Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.
Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.
There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
