“Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.” PeopleActionFormSocialCommunityGroupsMediaCommunicationRevolutionInternetCivilizationSmartPressesRateAvailableScalesEmpiresCollectivesInteractionTribesBureaucracyTelephonesGlobalizationMobilePrintingAlphabetNomadSocial InteractionPrinting PressMonotheismCollective Action Author:Howard Rheingold
“The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.” FacesMajorsDecadesFactorsMajor Change Author:Steve Jobs
“The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.” GuyTechnologyAdvantageCompetitive AdvantageBest Technology Author:Walter Wriston
“The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.” ModernCarCostExceedElectronics Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.” IfsKnowsUseJobsAcceptingComputerToolsUsers Author:Peter Drucker
“Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?” HumansCharacterNamesSocialPersonalityConceptsInstitutionsAncientAppropriateVillageUnitsFlexibilityHuman Society Author:Charles Handy