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One Good Test Of Whether An Economy Is Humanistic Or Not Is The Plausibility Of Earning The Ability To Drop Out Of It For A While Without Incident Or Insult.

A File-sharing Service And A Hedge Fund Are Essentially The Same Things. In Both Cases, There's This Idea That Whoever Has The Biggest Computer Can Analyze Everyone Else To Their Advantage And Concentrate Wealth And Power. It's Shrinking The Overall Economy. I Think It's The Mistake Of Our Age.

Digital Technologies Are Setting Down The New Grooves Of How People Live, How We Do Business, How We Do Everything--and They're Doing It According To The Expectations Of Foolish Utopian Scenarios. We Want Free Online Experiences So Badly That We Are Happy To Not Be Paid For Information That Comes From Us Now Or Ever. That Sensibility Also Implies That The More Dominant Information Becomes In Our Economy, The Less Most Of Us Will Be Worth.

A Remarkable Thing About The Silicon Valley Culture Is That Its Status Structure Is So Based On Technical Accomplishment And Prowess.

There Were Studies That Asked People In Different Cultures To Draw Pictures Of Their Enemies, And The Pictures All Looked Remarkably The Same. They Always Had Exaggerated Canine Teeth And A Certain Sort Of Expression. That Led To Speculation About Whether At An Earlier Stage In The Human Experience We Were Hunted By Some Sort Of Carnivore.