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Quotes from New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World — Kevin Kelly

born 1952 United States

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The net shifts from mass media to mess media.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Don't solve problems, pursue opportunities.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Releasing incomplete 'buggy' products is not cost-cutting desperation; it is the shrewdest way to complete a product when your customers are smarter than you are.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Bit by bit the logic of the network will overtake every we atom we deal with.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; it obeyed the law of decreasing returns.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Technology has become our culture, our culture technology.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Everywhere networks go, intermediaries follow. The more nodes, the more middlemen.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The migration from ad hoc use to commercialisation cannot be rushed. To reach ubiquity you have to pass through sharing.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The network economy is founded on technology, but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Communication – which in the end is what the digital technology and media are all about – is not just a sector of the economy. Communication IS the economy.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Following the free also works in the other direction. If one way to increase product value is to make products free, then many things now free may contain potential value not yet perceived.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The great benefits reaped by the new economy in the coming decades will be due in large part to exploring and exploiting the power of decentralised and autonomous networks.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.