But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you … - Esther Dyson

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Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Esther Dyson

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

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The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

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Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

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From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then. This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.

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I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.

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