50.

“There’s a powerful message here for nations and civilizations. Nations that look up go up. Nations that look down go down. Research on the fans of winning and losing sports teams show that when your team and mine wins, we, like lizards and crayfish, go through a biologically based lift. But if our team loses, our biology knocks us down a peg. The implication? When we sense we are part of a group with an exuberant future we’re neurochemically primed to climb. But if all we see is gloom and doom, our neurochemistry can help give us what we wish for. It can shift us into the hormonal posture of a loser.

If America can find its next big goal and aim for it, if America can see its next way of climbing to the heights, if America can shift its perception from decline to the peaks that lay ahead of us, to the next big challenge, if we can lift ourselves with all our might, we can . . . see obstacles as challenges and difficulties as opportunities. And we can make massive contributions to humanity . . .

Your obligation and mine is to generate America’s next high aspiration, America’s next towering vision. “

–Howard Bloom

49.

“If the desire is to increase knowledge sharing, and the methods of compensation that Google controls include traffic/attention and money/advertising, then a more effective system than Knol would be to algorithmically determine the most valuable and well-presented sources of knowledge, identify the identity of authorities . . and then reward those sources with increased traffic, attention and/or monetary compensation.”

–Anil Dash

48.

“The knowledge-led accumulation regime has elements of an alternative development model beyond both Fordism and neoliberalism, in that it could upgrade workers’ skill and knowledge and enhance autonomy of workers in knowledge firms.”

–Hyungkee Kim

47.

“Humans won’t be taken out of the loop—in fact, many, many more humans will have the capacity to do something that was once limited to a hermetic priesthood. Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

As the digital systems we rely upon become faster, more sophisticated, and (with the usual hiccups) more capable, we’re becoming more sophisticated and capable too. It’s a form of co-evolution: we learn to adapt our thinking and expectations to these digital systems, even as the system designs become more complex and powerful to meet more of our needs—and eventually come to adapt to us. “

–Jamais Cascio

46.

“We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).”

–Matthew Crawford

45.

“If web 2.0 was all about democratizing publishing, then the next stage of the web may well be based on democratizing data mining of all that content [and raw data] that’s getting published.”

–Marshall Kirckpatrick

44.

“After these crashes, and periods of turmoil, the potential of the new technologies and infrastructures is eventually realised, but only once new institutions come into being which are better aligned with the characteristics of the new economy. Once that has happened, economies then go through surges of growth as well as social progress . . .

The result is that a large political space is opening up. In the short run it is being filled with anger, fear and confusion. In the longer run it may be filled with a new vision of capitalism, and its relationship to both society and ecology, a vision that will be clearer about what we want to grow and what we don’t. Democracies have in the past repeatedly tamed, guided and revived capitalism. They have prevented the sale of people, of votes, public offices, children’s labour and body organs, and they have enforced rights and rules, while also pouring resources in to meet capitalism’s need for science and skills, and it has been out of this mix of conflict and co-operation that the world has achieved the extraordinary progress of the last century.”

–Geoff Mulgan

43.

“the protocol’s real power will be realized only when every company starts using it—to keep track of their own operations as well as to report their numbers to investors and regulators”

–Daniel Roth, Wired

42.

“It will have to be an evolutionary process of many innovations, trial and error, self adjustment, avoiding repetition of past mistakes and, above all, patience. It will also have to include one or more big game-changing elements of the order of magnitude of the influence of Google.

This is a change that will create a livable world for the next generations, both in affluent societies and, especially, in the developing or not-even-yet-developing parts of the world. Its time has definitely come.”

–Haim Harari

41.

“An aspect of some embodiments of the invention relates to providing a gloss to accompany textual material and thereby to providing an annotated text that is configured to aid a reader of the material in understanding and using the text. The gloss is produced responsive to attributes of the text and a database that defines a personal profile of the reader’s proficiency for understanding text. Hereinafter, a text for which a gloss is prepared is referred to as a “core text”. An annotated text refers to the combination of a core text and an associated gloss. The word “gloss” is used to refer to a single gloss and to a “glossary” comprising a plurality of glosses.”

–U.S. Patent Application No. WO/2008/102345