Before the internet there was simply no way to coordinate a million people in real time or to get a hundred thousand workers collaborating on one pro… - Kevin Kelly

When speaking to an audience
pause frequently. Pause before you say
something in a new way
pause after you have said something
you believe is important
and pause as a relief
to let listeners absorb details.

Commit to doing no work
no business
no income one day a week. Call it a sabbath (or not). Use that day
for resting, recharging, and cultivating
the most important things in life. Counterintuitively, this sabbath will prove
to be your most productive act all week.

Looking back, I think the computer age did not really start until this moment, when computers merged with the telephone. Stand-alone computers were inadequate. All the enduring consequences of computation did not start until the early 1980s, that moment when computers married phones and melded into a robust hybrid.