#ed

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#deliver #delivery #direct #discovery #find

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#ambassador #between #bridge #dialog #groups

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#agree #bad #communication #education #engage

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#boring #broad #definitely #edgy #feel

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#alone #barriers #break #break up #created

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#embrace #tempest #tossed

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#being #collectively #created #facts #history