One can imagine the future shape of companies by stretching them until they are pure network. It will be hard at times to tell who is working for who… - Kevin Kelly
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One can imagine the future shape of companies by stretching them until they are pure network. It will be hard at times to tell who is working for whom.
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture.
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A world without discomfort is utopia. But it is also stagnant. A world perfectly fair in some dimensions would be horribly unfair in others. A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either.
Being envious is a toxin. Instead take joy in the success of others and treat their success as your gain. Celebrating the success of others costs you nothing, and increases the happiness of everyone, including you.
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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.
