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Anonymous Blog Comments, Vapid Video Pranks And Lightweight Mash-ups May Seem Trivial And Harmless, But As A Whole, This Widespread Practice Of Fragmentary, Impersonal Communication Has Demeaned Personal Interaction.

A File-sharing Service And A Hedge Fund Are Essentially The Same Things. In Both Cases, There's This Idea That Whoever Has The Biggest Computer Can Analyze Everyone Else To Their Advantage And Concentrate Wealth And Power. It's Shrinking The Overall Economy. I Think It's The Mistake Of Our Age.

I Think Most Of The Dramatic New Ideas Come From Little Companies That Then Grow Big.

A Fashionable Idea In Technical Circles Is That Quantity Not Only Turns Into Quality At Some Extreme Of Scale, But Also Does So According To Principles We Already Understand. Some Of My Colleagues Think A Million, Or Perhaps A Billion, Fragmentary Insults Will Eventually Yield Wisdom That Surpasses That Of Any Well-thought-out Essay, So Long As Sophisticated Secret Statistical Algorithms Recombine The Fragments. I Disagree. A Trope From The Early Days Of Computer Science Comes To Mind: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Criticism Is Always Easier Than Constructive Solutions.