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"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."
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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."
"Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands."
"Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow."
"The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive."
"Okay, I have internet but it's limited and here on the web the information is countless."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor."
"To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update."
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"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time."
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."
"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids."
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."
"Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production."
"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."
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