Culture > Technology

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Clay Shirky

Change etc.

"The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it."

Spider Robinson

Definition of Publishing

"Publishing" is such a little metonym-bomb, it confuses the conversation. Replacing it w/'making things public' clarifies much.

Clay Shirky
(Tweeted 10th June 2009)

Being So Far Ahead

Second, in order to cement your status in the cultural elite, you want to be already sick of everything no one else has even heard of

David Brooks in “Lord of The Memes” NYT 7th August 2008

The Future Is Here

“The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.”

William Gibson, US science fiction novelist in Canada (1948 - )