Sublime

Hypertext is inherently nonhierarchical and antibureaucratic. It does not reinforce loyalty and obedience; it encourages idle speculation and loose talk. It encourages stories.

In a world of peer-network media, you can use filters to narrow your perspective down to a vanishing point of interest. But that world is also densely interconnected, thanks to the peer-networked, hypertextual architecture of the Web and the Internet. For the echo-chamber argument to hold water, you have to believe that the connective power of the

A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.

This future isn’t about tools or operating systems; the future is about co-operating systems.

Software compatibility is a marvelous thing. That was the essential lesson West took away from his long talks with his friend in Marketing. You didn’t want to make a machine that wasn’t compatible, not if you could avoid it. Old customers would feel that since they’d need to buy and create all new software anyway, they might as well look at what ot