Sublime

Just as Piaget saw that learning was innate, Vygotsky saw that culture was natural.

“It is the ultimate act of intellectual colonialism,” sighed the director of an internet provider in Russia. “The product comes from America so we must either adapt to English or stop using it. That is the right of business. But if you are talking about a technology that is supposed to open the world to hundreds of millions of people you are joking

L’argument central de ce livre, c’est que l’humanité acquiert énormément de pouvoir en construisant d’immenses réseaux de coopération, mais que la manière dont ces derniers sont conçus les prédispose à un usage déraisonnable de ce pouvoir. Notre problème est donc un problème de réseau.

Democracies die not only when people are not free to talk but also when people are not willing or able to listen.

The fact that microprocessing helps to liberate and disperse the production process from the fixed sequence of the assembly line greatly reduces the leverage formerly enjoyed by coercive institutions like unions and governments. If the assembly line were like a railroad within factory walls that could easily be captured by a sit-down strike, cybers

When you think closely about the terms under which industrial democracies have operated, it is more logical to treat them as a form of government controlled by their employees. Thinking of mass democracy as government controlled by its employees helps explain the difficulty of changing government policy. Government in many respects appears to be ru

while the grammar and sounds of language freeze, other functions such as the capacity to learn new words and their meanings remain open throughout life.

Said McLuhan: “Print technology created the public. Electric technology created the mass.”34