The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

Steven Johnson
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  3. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole

  4. Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

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  1. Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material–much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft–and then they take off for a week or two...

  2. This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

  3. Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities–a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity–but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

  4. Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

  5. Most world-historic events - great military battles, political revolutions-are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chronicled and dissected for decades or centuries to come. But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can...

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