Science of the Time, formally known as Signs of the Time

Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel

“It began with conversations then we got into broadcast media. Now we are going back to conversations. It’s a full circle.”

“It’s the first technology to enable a simple conversation to go instantly global. It’s the first to decentralize corporate communications.”

Republic.com 2.0 by Cass R. Sunstein

“What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers—to listen and speak only like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet’s unlimited choices if citizens narrowly limit the information they receive, creation ever-smaller niches and fragmenting the shared public conversation on which democracy depends?”

Wikinomics by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

“The immutable, standalone Web site is dead. Say hello to a Web that increasingly looks like library full of chatty components that interact and talk to one another.”

“Peer production is about more than sitting down and having a nice conversation with nice objectives and a nice attitude. It’s about harnessing a new mode of production to take innovation and wealth creation to new levels.”