as technology brings us a world of abundance, access will triumph over ownership. - Salim Ismail

The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects,

In his book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Kurzweil identified a hugely important and fundamental property of technology: when you shift to an information-based environment, the pace of development jumps onto an exponential growth path and price/performance doubles every year or two.

Ray Kurzweil says: "An invention needs to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started."