How much do we aready use increasingly cheap capital to extend the value of our
increasingly valuable personal capital?  are we already capital-enabled Cost	Est Number

cellphones	300	50	$15,000

laptops	  	1500	50	$75,000

blackberries	300	20	$6,000


Total Personal Technology Assets in the room			$96,000

For every Network Service there's an equal and opposite Network Disservice
1. A guaranteed network service guarantees to be a low quality overpriced service
2. For every guarantee there's a corresponding refusal
3. For every Network Connection there's a corresponding Network Disconnection
4. Modems that do compression make your connection slower, not faster.

		§ Users: stops you from accessing your data
		§ Computer scientists: bound to fail because of turing principle
		§ Corps: If you can't trust your people,, you can't trust your computers.
		§ Lawyers: trusting the law to a machine -- a mistake
		§ Media companies: DRM destroys value -- it's less valueable, so customer won't pay for it.

well, we all need to worry about those too - I've been goatse'd online too

thought on eliot's commets - Cisco has recently been on a huge kick egarding
medium sized business market.  strong demand for technology, relatively underentrated, and
more acceting of installed-base-threatening innovations such as VOIP PBX gear (a lot less
installed base to throw awa and mroe rapid rates of growth/decline/refresh).  wonder if
this middle segment has been underappreciated perceptually relative to its actual
economic/technical impact/value

david b - in '93 the internet was a text interface and in 94-95 it was gui -
mom could surf - mom may have wanted to use the net before but the net interface might as
well have been crfypto code - at least this was a factor

Ryan said microformats are all about 80/20.  He's right, but unless
you've share our common experience, he may as well be speaking in Zen
koans.  Most standards go like this:

1. Solve 80% of the problem in a matter of weeks.
2. Spend two years arguing about the last 20%.  (*cough* Atom *cough*)
3. Implement the 80% in a matter of weeks.  Wonder why everything is so hard.
4. Spend months implementing the last 20%.  Realize why the first 80%
was so hard.  Curse a lot.
5. Discover that the last 20% wasn't really worth all the time spent
arguing about it or implementing it.

Microformats, on the other hand, go like this:

1. Solve the 80% in a matter of weeks.
2. Promise (wink wink) to tackle the 20% "later".
3. Implement the 80% in a matter of days.
4. Watch people use it for a few months.  Maybe tweak a little here and there.
5. Discover that the last 20% wasn't really necessary after all. 
Breathe a sigh of relief that you never bothered.  Move on to the next
problem.