The Net Is Not A Single Home.

In The Space Of Three Weeks, I Met A Fair Bunch Of The Guys Who Were Just Starting Those Little Programmers' Co-ops, And Everybody Was Talking About Starting Businesses.

There's Almost No Way Of Doing Importing Honestly, Because If You Do You're At Such A Disadvantage Competitively. So People Spend Huge Amounts Of Effort Getting Around Stupid Laws And Not Paying Taxes.

The Net Is Not A Single Home. Rather, It's An Environment Where Thousands Of Small Homes And Communities Can Form And Define And Design Themselves.

When I Was A Young Student, I Thought Grow-ups Would Come And Make Things Work. Now I Realize That Grown-ups Are Just Kids With Wrinkles.

What's Really Going On Here Is, This Is A Media Shift. It's Comparable To What Happened In The 1950s And The Birth Of Electronic Mass Media Back Then.this Is The Birth Of A New Kind Of Personal Media, Where, Instead Of We're All Watching One Program, We're All Watching Each Other. And The History Of Media Makes It Really Clear. Whenever We Have A Big Innovation, The First Wave Of Stuff We Do Is Pretty Crummy. The Printing Press Gave Us Pornography, Cheap Thrillers, And How-to Books. Television Gave Us Newt Minow's Vast Wasteland.