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• Jonathan Lebed: Add a description of this character.
• Marcus
• Daniel Sheldon
• Greg Lebed
• Barton
• Danny Hillis
• Mari Ilion
• Justin Frankel
• Ramsay
• Melvin
• Keith
• Marino
• Kessler
• Arthur Levitt
• Priscilla
• Loretta
• Bush
• Oldham
• Kelly
• Gnutella
• Marion Frost
• Doug Rivers
• Harry Potter

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• “{Danny Hillis} visited New College Oxford, built in 1386. There he'd been shown the giant oak beams in the ceiling of the common room. Unlike most of the building, the oak beams weren't original; they'd been replaced at the end of the 19th century. When the time is come to replace the giant old oak giant new oak beams had been thin on the ground. The New College people had called the Oxford forester to explain their problem and the forester had informed the New College people that the man who had built the original ceiling back in the 14th century and also planted the trees to replace the beams. They stood on Oxford University land waiting, to be cut down. pages 218-219”

• “Just as people needed to other people to tell them who they were, ideas needed other ideas to tell them what they meant. page 136”

• “The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-- true stability--is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth. page 137”

• “Capital is a useful guide to the social observer. The sheer consistency of this behavior--it never does anything but seek the highest return--means that its movement inadvertently tells you a lot about the world. If capital is moving in some new direction, it is because financial incentives, not the capital, have changed. page 153”

• “There is an old adage in technology; intelligence always moves to the edge of the network. page 159”

• “The means of consumption, not the means of production, are the engine of modern economic life. page 193”

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• The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability—true stability—is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.

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• business using new technology. Incumbents co-opt the fringe, or fringe players become the new incumbents and seek to establish new rules. Go to 1.

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• The question isn’t “How does P&G sell soap?” but “How does P&G survive?” It must transform itself from a maker of mass-market goods into the world’s largest boutique. After all, the consumer would obviously prefer not only the message precisely tailored to him but the products as well. In this new market, there will be dozens of versions of Tide.

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• “Much of our society still retains a patriarchal flavor,” said Romer, “in that it is premised on the authority of the elders,

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• The Internet undermined all the old sources of insider power: control of distribution channels, control of intellectual property, control of information.

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• To a child, being on the wrong end of the trend is not a sign that it’s time to dig in and defend the old position; it’s a signal to cut and run. Progress depends on these small acts of treason.

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• Technical change was certain to become more rapid because everyone now understood that it was the source of new wealth.

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• He’d gone so far as to codify his belief that the big moneymaking opportunities came from cultural change, and that cultural change nearly always got its start as a subtle shift in relations between what he called “the center” and “the fringe.”

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• Look at any network—the phone system, the Internet—and you see that the little devices on the edge of it have steadily become more intelligent, and the big powerful devices at the center have grown less important. There is an old adage in technology: intelligence always moves to the edge of the network.

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• The science fiction writer William Gibson once said that the future is always present, it just isn’t evenly distributed.

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• Wall Street
• America
• New Jersey
• Silicon Valley
• Cedar Grove
• California
• United States
• Philadelphia
• Los Angeles
• Washington
• Hollywood

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Michael Lewis (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 330

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
• Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › E-commerce
• Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Popular Culture
• Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Theory
• Books › Computers & Internet