Our Times Demand Rejection Of Seven Word

America's Facebook Generation Shows A Submission To Standardization That I Haven't Seen Before. The American Adventure Has Always Been About People Forgetting Their Former Selves - Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac Went On The Road. If They Had A Facebook Page, They Wouldn't Have Been Able To Forget Their Former Selves.

We Have Repeatedly Demonstrated Our Species's Bottomless Ability To Lower Our Standards To Make Information Technology Look Good.

Musicians And Journalists Are The Canaries In The Coalmine, But, Eventually, As Computers Get More And More Powerful, It Will Kill Off All Middle-class Professions.

There Will Always Be Humans, Lots Of Them, Who Provide The Data That Makes The Networked Realization Of Any Technology Better And Cheaper.

It's As If You Kneel To Plant The Seed Of A Tree And It Grows So Fast That It Swallows Your Whole Town Before You Can Even Rise To Your Feet.