“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. We are now witnessing the rapid stress of older institutions accompanied by the slow and fitful development of cultural alternatives. Just as required education was a response to print, using the Internet well will require new cultural institutions as well, not just new technologies.”
[Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - Clay Shirky (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html)
“What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”
Regis Debray, Wired 3.01, Jan 1995, p. 162
“It is the arrogance of every age to believe that yesterday was calm.”
Tom Peters, Wired 5.12, Dec 1997
