February 20, 2005

More Verbs Than Nouns

Imagining the Internet compiles predictions and survey responses from over a thousand people (ranging from tech innovators to everyday users) about the internet. The site hosts both a searchable database of responses and a PDF report.

We're going to have to look at information as though we'd never seen the stuff before ... The economy of the future will be based on relationship rather than possession. It will be continuous rather than sequential. And finally, in the years to come, most human exchange will be virtual rather than physical, consisting not of stuff but the stuff of which dreams are made. Our future business will be conducted in a world made more of verbs than nouns. – John Perry Barlow, 1994

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