the economy of material property, which is inherently spatial and which dominates classical economic theory, in cyberspace is subsumed by the economy of information, and with it the idea of time as the ony true scarce resource...time, and not spatial/physical property, is the new salient capital and currency of the "information age"

- Notes to Cyberspace: Some Proposals, Michael Benedikt, in Cyberspace: First Steps, edited by Michael Benedikt, Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1991


If you are not in real time, you are dead.

- Kevin Kelly, Out Of Control , A William Patrick Book, 1994


In a blinding flash of inspiration, the other day I realized that "interactive" anything is the wrong word. Interactive makes you imagine people sitting with their hands on controls, some kind of gamelike thing. The right word is "unfinished." Think of cultural products, or art works, or the people who use them even, as being unfinished. Permanently unfinished. We come from a cultural heritage that says things have a "nature," and that this nature is fixed and describable. We find more and more that this idea is unsupportable - the "nature" of something is not by any means singular, and depends on where and when you find it, and what you want it for...Finishing implies interactive: your job is to complete something for that moment in time. A very clear example of this is hypertext.

- Brian Eno, interviewed by Kevin Kelly, in Wired 3.05, May 1995


All of the biological sciences make sense - and make sense of each other - in the light of one unifying concept, Darwin's theory of evolution. Something similar could unify the disciplines, professions, and trades that have to do with buildings. They could become, like biology, one organic body of knowledge and inquiry. The missing link is time.

...Architects talk about "daylighting as formgiver" and "sunlighting as formgiver." What kind of buildings might reflect "time as formgiver"?

- Stewart Brand in How Buildings Learn, Viking, 1994.


Personally, I'd rather answer e-mail on a Sunday and be in my pyjamas longer on Monday.

- Nicholas Negroponte, being digital, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995


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