Sublime

Part 2 Living in the Cloud We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. —John M. Culkin

He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

Over the next two weeks, he met with Omidyar outside of Benchmark’s office and discovered that he was an anomalous kind of engineer, one who was consumed by the idea of community—every other sentence, he spoke about the eBay community, building the community, learning from the community, protecting the community. It was a passion similar to what,

Mitchell and I had stumbled upon a plain truth: personal computers are deskbound, like typewriters, and are unsuitable for people who spend their time away from a desk or work face to face with others.

Stanford lui offre son premier centre de recherche sur la loi et les nouvelles technologies. En embuscade au cœur de la Silicon Valley, il compte inventer le droit de l’Internet, espace de circulation des idées et de la connaissance qui bouleverse les règles de la propriété intellectuelle sur lesquelles prospère toute une industrie. Larry Lessig

Ted Nelson, whose ambitious Xanadu Project (though never completed) was a vision of disparate information linked by “hypertext” connections.

But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts to

Nicholas Negroponte, MIT professor and guru of media technology, sees in these “personalized news” features the emergence of the “Daily Me”—news publications that expose citizens only to information that fits with their narrowly preconceived preferences.