Sublime

In the old world, the rule was: Every industry makes money, and the market share leaders make the most money.

Google represents both the best and the worst facets of the marriage of the academy and its commercial progeny.

For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.

a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth—an

Peter Drucker.

Free-market capitalism rewards those who produce and innovate the most, as does nature with its survival-of-the-fittest drive.

No place on earth is more baby-boomerish than Silicon Valley, and Jobs was its avatar: a CEO who wore jeans and emitted a “reality distortion field,” a sentimental, countercultural romantic who was also a ruthless mogul, a forever-young tinkerer dedicated to erasing the old distinctions between tools and toys, work and play.

In the future, computers will pursue the energy ergonomics of brains rather than the megawattage of Big Blue or even the giant air-conditioned expanses of data centers.

To be sure, it is those entrepreneurs—people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell in the personal computer era; Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg in the web era—who saw that this world driven by a passion for discovery and sharing could become the cradle of a new economy.