The Change From Atoms To Bits Is

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.

When Things Are Digital, They're All 1's And Zero's, And So They Commingle In Ways We Didn't Anticipate And You Could Do Things That Were Not Like Publishing Or Television, Or Computers, But Were Some Intersection Of Those And That Got Known To Be Convergence, So Between The Switching, Or Trading Of Places And The Convergence, You Have Today's Media.

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?

Linux Is Its Own Worst Enemy: It's Splintered, It Has Different Distributions, It's Too Complex To Run For Most People.

One Of The Basics Of A Good System Of Innovation Is Diversity. In Some Ways, The Stronger The Culture (national, Institutional, Generational, Or Other), The Less Likely It Is To Harbor Innovative Thinking. Common And Deep-seated Beliefs, Widespread Norms, And Behavior And Performance Standards Are Enemies Of New Ideas. Any Society That Prides Itself On Being Harmonious And Homogeneous Is Very Unlikely To Catalyze Idiosyncratic Thinking. Suppression Of Innovation Need Not Be Overt. It Can Be Simply A Matter Of Peoples Walking Around In Tacit Agreement And Full Comfort With The Status Quo.