Kevin Kelly (editor) on Work

"In a poetic sense the prime goal of the new economy is to undo – company by company, industry by industry – the industrial economy."

"In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value."

"The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result."

"In the network economy the more plentiful things become, the more valuable they become."

"Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms."

"A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often."

"Everywhere networks go, intermediaries follow. The more nodes, the more middlemen."

"Because information trumps mass, all commerce migrates to the network economy."

"The tricks of the intangible trade will become the tricks of your trade."

"Expertise now resides in fanatical customers. The world's best experts on your product or service, don't work for your company. They are your customers, or a hobby tribe."

"In the network economy, ever-less energy is needed to complete a single transaction, but ever-more effort is needed to agree on what pattern the transaction should follow."

"The first thing the network economy reforms is our identity."

"In the marketspace of networks, value flows in webs."

"In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment."

"In network economics, more brings more."

"A network is a possibility factory."