When I Was A Young

If The Past Decade Was The Decade Of Searching And Finding And Looking For Stuff, This Coming Decade Is Going To Be The Decade Of Filtering And Going To Your Friends For Recommendations.

What's Really Going On Here Is, This Is A Media Shift. It's Comparable To What Happened In The 1950s And The Birth Of Electronic Mass Media Back Then.this Is The Birth Of A New Kind Of Personal Media, Where, Instead Of We're All Watching One Program, We're All Watching Each Other. And The History Of Media Makes It Really Clear. Whenever We Have A Big Innovation, The First Wave Of Stuff We Do Is Pretty Crummy. The Printing Press Gave Us Pornography, Cheap Thrillers, And How-to Books. Television Gave Us Newt Minow's Vast Wasteland.

In The Space Of Three Weeks, I Met A Fair Bunch Of The Guys Who Were Just Starting Those Little Programmers' Co-ops, And Everybody Was Talking About Starting Businesses.

I Became A Real Free Market Fanatic. I'm Probably Less So Now Than Even Two Or Three Years Ago.

The Nature Of Business And Government Has Been To Build A Surplus And Self-perpetuate, But The Internet Fosters And Rewards Smaller, More Fluid Organizations.