Here is a clip of a great riff worth reading. I love this quote.
Are you curious?
The future belongs to the curious. If you want to find out why a new development is important, don't just ask the people who brought it about; their agenda is to emphasize the benefits and ignore the drawbacks. Don't just ask their competitors; their agenda is the opposite. Always ask the hackers, the people who love to take things apart and figure out how they work, love to figure out better ways of using a system, love to look for how to make new things fit together in unexpected ways.
The challenge for our community of advocacy practitioners and campaigners is to hack our culture. The mobile culture, email, web2.0, cell phones, blogs, myspace, video games, IM, skype, e-bay and cheap travel were not invented by us or for us. We care about mass engagement and the spread of ideas. It is our challenge to tap the networked culture in new ways to produce positive social change and progressive policy. The future belongs to us. Find better ways to use the system, fit things together in new ways.
