When I Was A Young Student, I

It's Not That You Have Jobs On The Internet, But The Internet Makes It Possible For More People To Build Their Own Jobs. What It Does Is, It Erodes The Power Of Institutions. It Used To Be You Needed An Institution To Have A Job. But, If You Look At The Three Of Us On This Show, I Don't Think Any Of Us Is Really Employed By An Institution. We Run Our Own Lives.

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.

If The Past Decade Was The Decade Of Searching And Finding And Looking For Stuff, This Coming Decade Is Going To Be The Decade Of Filtering And Going To Your Friends For Recommendations.

In The Sense That People Who Produce Things And Work Get Rewarded, Statistically. You Don't Get Rewarded Precisely For Your Effort, But In Russia You Got Rewarded For Being Alive, But Not Very Well Rewarded.

People Have To Understand That They Can Reject Technology. They Can Turn Off Their Cell Phone. They Can Stop Looking At Their E-mail. It's There If They Want It. It's Not Being Forced On Them.