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In November 1989, two watershed events changed the course of world history. The fall of the Berlin Wall would end the Cold War and open up markets across the world. That very same month, Tim Berners-Lee would create the World Wide Web and usher in a new technological era of networked computing.
It seemed, as Francis Fukuyama famously wrote, like the end of history. The...
In the final analysis, most would-be changemakers fail because they assume the righteousness of their cause will save them. It will not. Injustice, inequity and ineffectiveness can thrive for decades and even centuries, far surpassing a human lifespan. If you think that your idea will prevail simply because you believe in it, you will be sorely disappointed.
Tough, imp...
Humans don’t always react well to abstractions. We want our leaders to be specific and concrete about their expectations. That’s why we so often try to boil things down to a single metric that can be optimized. That metric then acts as a proxy for success, something everyone can understand and work toward.
So activists adopt the goal of getting 3.5% of the population. ...
In 1945, Vannevar Bush published a long essay in The Atlantic entitled As We May Think, which envisioned a “memex,” a machine that sounded strikingly like the Internet of today.
"Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility...