Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred … - Howard Rheingold

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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Howard Rheingold

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

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Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

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Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

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The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

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Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

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