the interwebs,

"This waking dream we call the Internet also blurs the difference between my serious thoughts and my playful thoughts, or to put it more simply: I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online. For some people the disintegration between these two realms marks all that is wrong with the Internet: It is the high-priced waster of time. It breeds trifles. On the contrary, I cherish a good wasting of time as a necessary precondition for creativity, but more importantly I believe the conflation of play and work, of thinking hard and thinking playfully, is one the greatest things the Internet has done.

We are devel­op­ing an intense, sus­tained con­ver­sa­tion with this large thing. The fact that it is made up of a mil­lion loosely con­nected pieces is dis­tract­ing us. The pro­duc­ers of Web­sites, and the hordes of com­menters online, and the movie moguls reluc­tantly let­ting us stream their movies, don’t believe they are mere pix­els in a big global show, but they are. It is one thing now, an inter­me­dia with 2 bil­lion screens peer­ing into it. The whole ball of connections—including all its books, all its pages, all its tweets, all its movies, all its games, all its posts, all its streams—is like one vast global book (or movie, etc.), and we are only begin­ning to learn how to read it. - Kelvin Kelly