We are building a communications infrastructure, and learning how to relate to one another. That's not about information as much as contact itself. This is a time when the boundaries between people and peoples are disintegrating. I think open source is terrific, but I'm still hoping it will begin to reach the people who need it, and that it will become as easy to use and install as commercial products. Linux is so open it's transparent compared with Windows, but paradoxically that also makes the barrier to entry a bit higher for people who simply want to use a computer without caring how it works.
Problem is, the easier software is to use, the harder it tends to be to program.
The fatter the interface, the more people can seem to use it, but the fewer that understand how it works. We meant to demonstrate that extremism is needlessly polarizing, and that it makes real conversation very difficult. It was nothing more than a way of justifying the quashing of public interests online, and bolstering the Ponzi scheme of Internet investments. That was my problem with it. In Coercion, you recount the negative reaction to technorealism by established Internet players like Michael Kinsley.