Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.
The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn't give up 'til they died....
We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.
In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Maybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hills--people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor
Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?
