"One decline-believer, Jonathan Schooler “recommends the establishment of an open-source database, in which researchers are required to outline their planned investigations and document all their results.” In other words, state what the experiment is before hand, and then publish the results no matter what. Most results will be negative, which may mean that any positive result will be more durable, more robust to future experiments."

"Humanity is migrating towards its hive mind. Most of what “everybody knows” about us is based on the human individual. Collectively, connected humans will be capable of things we cannot imagine right now. These future phenomenon will rightly seem impossible. What’s coming is so unimaginable that the impossibility of wikipedia will recede into outright obviousness."

Society ought to keep a physical specimen that typifies each thing they produce.

Totally fascinating article fro Kevin Kelly about the future of books.

Kevin Kelly's principles for surviving and thriving in the technological future.

"In an earlier posting I claimed that technologies don't go extinct. By that I mean that no species, no specific invention, has been eliminated from the world at a global level. Somewhere, someone is still making that technology brand new today. Anything I could think of."

"So why was this different than getting lost in Google Books, or the web itself?

In some ways it is very similar and offers a similar serendipity. But stacks of paper offer several user experiences that are superior to online browsing."

Simultanology will become the standard mode of operation for the future. Things will all be "just in time."