Information technology has a shorter product cycle. Products will become obsolete faster, so any gains from extorting above-market wages will be short lived.

In the Information Age, only cities that repay their upkeep with a high quality of life will stay viable. People at a distance won’t be obligated to subsidize them.

The information overload puts a premium on brevity, which leads to abbreviation, which leaves out what is unfamiliar, which leaves out important parts of understanding the information.

People will react much more violently to technologies that replace specific jobs, as opposed to technologies that allow for new kinds of work or production.

The move to agriculture resulted in the emergence of property. Before that, there was no sense of private property since there was no need. But when you spend a year growing a field of corn, you don’t want someone else to come along and eat it.

Unless the US changes its tax laws, enterprising individuals will likely renounce their citizenship in the future in pursuit of a better form of governance.

You can’t rely on conventional information sources to give you an objective warning about how the world is changing and why. You have to figure it out for yourself.

The web allows people to transcend any bad luck of being born in a certain country or state, they’re global citizens now.

Information technology is highly portable, it’s not reliant on one place, so a certain area doesn’t have the same kind of control over it. GM can’t pack up its car plants and fly off to another country over night, but a software company can.