The longer a technology has existed in the past, the longer it can be expect to exist into the future.

“there’s a correlation between a focus on agents in English and our criminal-justice bent toward punishing transgressors rather than restituting victims”

“How is it possible for any institution to maintain authority in this media environment? He meant the relentless questioning and fierce transparency the Internet compels.”

You can’t. Because the Internet destroys hierarchies and turn them into networks. If you can’t make that transition, you will fail.

“The search for symmetry in nature has had so many successes, observes Stephon Alexander, a Dartmouth physicist, that ‘there is a danger of forgetting that nature is the one that decides where that game ends.'”