Only among convivially structured tools can people learn to use the new levels of power that modern technology can incorporate in them.
- Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality
The functional identity of things is a product of our interaction with them.
- Brian Eno, interviewed by Kevin Kelly, in Wired 3.05, May 1995
The true value of a network is less about information and more about community.
- Nicholas Negroponte, being digital, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
The essential lesson that we have abstracted from our experiences with Habitat is that a cyberspace is defined more by the interactions among the actors within it than by the technology with which it is implemented.
[Lucasfilm's Habitat project was one of the first attempts to create a very large-scale, commercial, many-user, graphical virtual environment]
- The Lesson's of Lucasfilm's Habitat: Chris Morningstar, F. Randall Farmer in Cyberspace: First Steps, edited by Michael Benedikt, Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1991