It's Even Hard For People To Imagine

If You Were To Hire Household Staff To Cook, Clean, Drive, Stoke The Fire, And Answer The Door, Can You Imagine Suggesting That They Not Talk To Each Other, Not See What Each Other Is Doing, Not Coordinate Their Functions?

Nations Have The Wrong Granularity. They’re Too Small To Be Global And Too Big To Be Local, And All They Can Think About Is Competing.

But Just As Elevators Have Changed The Shape Of Buildings And Cars Have Changed The Shape Of Cities, Bits Will Change The Shape Of Organizations, Be They Companies, Nations, Or Social Structures.

It Makes No Sense To Ship Atoms When You Can Ship Bits.

I've Spent My Whole Life Worrying About The Human-computer Interface, So I Don't Want To Suggest That What We Have Today Is Even Close To Acceptable.