PAPERLESS JOY
Among the trends that have contributed to the decline of paper consumption, none has been as relatively abrupt as the virtual demise of the market for photographic paper and the shift in disseminating news and images from printed to electronic forms.
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
As a quote attributed to Victor Hugo, the French dramatist and nov. elist, puts it, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." "Less but better" is a principle whose time has come.
Everything changes when we give ourselves permission to be more selective in what we choose to do. At once, we hold the key t
... See moreEfforts to make information conform to archaic notions of scarcity, ownership, and finite physical quantity--concepts that grew out of the agricultural and industrial age--merely lock us into old mental boxes of constraint and exploitation.
Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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