“The rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers' keeper because o…”— Martin Luther King Jr., nobelprize.org
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.com
“Our devices and, by extension, our nervous systems are now attached to the entire online universe, all the time.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your…”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“The content is not the message, the contact is. The ping itself. It's the synaptic transmission of an organism trying to wake itself up.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“The most valuable contribution to our economy comes from connectivity, not content.”— Lawrence Lessig, amazon.com
“The main thing I've been trying to communicate, whether it's in terms of spirituality, in terms of media, in terms of marketing and communications, or even in terms of politics and economics, is that there's one thing going on here: people are desperately afraid to accept the fact that we are moving…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Well the global brain is not something that's electronic and it has nothing to do with the World Wide Web and it has nothing to do with the Internet; we were World Wide Webbed and Internetted 3.5 billion years ago when life first began.”— Howard Bloom, amazon.com
“With all of our Internetting, with all of our World Wide Webbing, with all of our URLs, we're still not anywhere near being able to swap the quantities of information that bacteria were able to swap via the bacterial airlines, which means your everyday goose flying from one continent to another.”— Howard Bloom, amazon.com
“Nature has been far more clever at connectionism than have we. Her mechanisms for information swapping, data processing, and collective creation are more intricate and agile than anything the finest computer theoreticians have yet foreseen.”— Howard Bloom, amazon.com
“The concept of 'reprehensible action' presents us with some difficult. Nothing in all that happens can be reprehensible in itself: one not dare to eliminate it completely for everything is so bound up with everything else, that to exclude one part would mean to exclude the whole. A reprehensible act…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com