But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson
Change means that what was before wasnt perfect. People want things to be better. – Esther Dyson
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. – Esther Dyson
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we dont expect the world that were familiar with to be perfect. – Esther Dyson
I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will