Quotes from Chris Anderson

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.

But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it

From filmmakers to bloggers, producers of all sorts that start in the Tail with few expectations of commercial success can afford to take chances. They're willing to take more risks, because they have less to lose. There's no need for permission, a business plan, or even capital. The tools of creativity are now cheap, and talent is more widely distributed than we know.

As this figure shows, a once-monolithic industry structure where professionals produced and amateurs consumed is now a two-way marketplace, where anyone can be in any camp at any time. This

But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a column? The number 60 is one wedge in the sixties column and no wedges in the ones column. How do you write "no wedges"? The Babylonians needed a placeholder that represented nothing. They had to, in effect, invent zero. And so they created a new character, with no value, to signify an empty column. They denoted it with two slanted wedges.

The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort or another—length, angles, area, etc. Zero space didn't make sense.

El modelo tradicional de promoción, comercialización y distribución de música ha perdido vigencia. Los principales sellos discográficos y el sistema de distribución minorista que adquirió dimensiones colosales gracias a la fábrica de éxitos de la radio se encuentran con un modelo empresarial dependiente de los grandes éxitos; y ahora ya no hay suficientes discos de oro y de platino. Estamos asistiendo al fin de una era.

Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the creator and the destroyer of worlds; indeed, one aspect of the deity Nishkala Shiva was the Shiva "without parts"—the void. Through their ability to divorce numerals from physical reality, the Indians invented algebra.

Indeed, the very word "zero" has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning "empty," which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western scholars Latinized this into zephirus, the root of our zero.

Even after most cultures established monetary economies, day-to-day transactions within close-knit social groups, from families to tribes, was still mostly without price. The currencies of generosity, trust, goodwill, reputation, and equitable exchange still dominate the goods and services of the family, the neighborhood, and even within the workplace. In general, no cash is required among friends.

In the world of information science, the tricky question of where to put things is known as the "ontology problem.

Everybody says they want to hear from consumers. Well, be careful what you ask for: Now they won't shut up.

In short, we're seeing a shift from mass culture to massively parallel culture.

Along with the fragmentation of markets is coming the fragmentation of marketing.

El proceso de fabricar cosas ha empezado a parecerse más al proceso de producción digital.

This is one of the negative implications of free. People often don't care as much about things they don't pay for, and as a result they don't think as much about how they consume them. free can encourage gluttony, hoarding, thoughtless consumption, waste, guilt, and greed. We take stuff because it's there, not necessarily because we want it. Charging a price, even a very low price, can encourage much more responsible behavior.

When you think about it, the hyperlink is the ultimate act of generosity online. When somebody links to another site, what they're doing is telling their readers to go elsewhere.

In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.

Whatever Microsoft product you use or have an interest in, there's an engineer or product manager carrying on a conversation in public about it.

A best-seller and a neverseller are just two entries in a database; equal in the eyes of technology and the economics of storage.

ahora estamos formando nuestras propias tribus, grupos unidos más por la afinidad y los intereses compartidos que por los programas de radio