The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win. - Kevin Kelly

That monopoly of a persistent identity is the real engine of Facebook’s remarkable success.

Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT’s Media Lab, once quipped in the 1990s that the urinal in the men’s restroom was smarter than his computer because it knew he was there and would flush when he left, while his computer had no idea he was sitting in front of it all day.

In a poetic sense the prime goal of the new economy is to undo – company by company, industry by industry – the industrial economy.