The Net ideal represents a retreat not only from political life but also from culture—from that tumultuous conversation in which we try to talk to one another about our shared experiences.

Ellen Ullman

The Internet still hasn't figured out how to conduct itself in public. It's fascinating to watch, like a little village where everybody is trying to develop the rules by which they can conduct themselves in order to keep a civil operation going and not self-destruct.

George Lucas
Creator of Star Wars

Worries about the future of the Net usually center on the delays and access limitation caused by its overburdened hardware infrastructure. Those may be no more than growing pains, however. The more serious, longer-range obstacle is that much of the information on the Internet is quirky, transient and chaotically "shelved."

Scientific American

The Net is a now a veritable rock star, prone to vanity, excess, and delusions of invulnerability.

Suck

The Web represents a triumph of mind over matter.

Evan Schwartz
Webonomics

New media enables even the smallest, most scattered electronic communities to share — or sell — what they know, like, and do. What broadcasting atomized, new media brings back together.

John Browning and Spencer Reiss
Wired

We believe the public would rather be online than in line.

Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles