Kevin Kelly is an American technology expert and is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine. The rest of this post is 2 quotes from Kelly about decentralization and standards.
1. "The great benefits reaped by the new economy in the coming decades will be due in large part to exploring and exploiting the power of decentralized and autonomous networks." (New Rules for the New Economy, 1999)
2. "As more of the economy migrates to intangibles, more of the economy will require standards." (New Rules for the New Economy, 1999)
