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

There will be a severe backlash against this drift from the usual suspects, but increased sharing is inevitable. There is an honest argument over what to call it, but the technologies of sharing have only begun. On my imgainary Sharing Meter Index we are still at 2 out of 10. There is a whole list of subjects that experts once believed we modern humans would not share — our finances, our health challenges, our sex lives, our innermost fears — but it turns out that with the right technology and the right benefits in the right conditions, we’ll share everything.

In the coming 30 years, anything that is not intensely interactive will be considered broken.

Every breakthrough is at first laughable and ridiculous. In fact, if it did not start out laughable and ridiculous, it is not a breakthrough.