We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
