When you are young, have friends who are older; when you are old, have friends who are younger. - Kevin Kelly

Real dystopias are more like the old Soviet Union rather than Mad Max: They are stiflingly bureaucratic rather than lawless.

A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.

The big will have a different kind of bigness. The network economy encourages the middle space. It supplies technology (which the industrial age could not) to nurture mid-sized wonders.