From information to conversation

Here are just some of the gems from David Weinberger's keynote, The Information Revolution that Wasn't and the One that Will Be: How the New Dimensions of Information are Transforming Business ... and Life (yes, that's the actual title!):

• Community is a group of people 'listening more than they have to.'

• 'We don't often get to invent new ways of talking to each other,' as we've being doing the past 10 years.
• 'Don't underestimate the subversive power of conversation.'
• We are coming out of the Age of Information and coming into Age of Conversation.
• The system that works well in the physical world doesn't work in the online world.
• "Of course we'd rather talk to each other than listen to a bunch of blowhards up on the stage.'
• 'Control doesn't scale very well'
• Thanks to tagging, 'users are in control of the organization of stuff.'
• "We will fill every space with conversation ' We are an insanely social species."
• "Conversations are smarter than the individual people having them."
• "Knowledge is not in our heads ' it is between us."