When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.