Joi Ito

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe  · 6 Dec 2016  · 254pp  · 76,064 words

a concerted effort to push the pendulum back in the other direction and show that the arc of the Internet can indeed bend toward justice. —Joi Ito 2 Pull over Push The Pacific Plate is something of a sprinter, as far as geological bodies go. Every year it moves three and a

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to respond to changes, opportunities, and threats. In many ways, it is like Zen or martial arts training that requires dedication and an open mind. —Joi Ito 3 Compasses over Maps Zach, a boy living in the suburbs of New York City, views algorithms as a kind of compass. His ability to

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we make, and even the music that we play. It is more of a system of mythologies than some sort of mission statement or slogan. —Joi Ito 4 Risk over Safety Julia Hu has no business being in an Apple Store, and yet she somehow found herself in 361 of them.1

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money had more power. But today, serial entrepreneurs with a good product and a good team often get their pick of investors in Silicon Valley. —Joi Ito 5 Disobedience over Compliance In 1926, Charles M. A. Stine, the director of DuPont’s chemical department, convinced the executive committee to fund what he

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that it was the role of disobedience-robust institutions like MIT to make the space for these kinds of discussions and this kind of research. —Joi Ito 6 Practice over Theory In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. —Yogi Berra1 The Bayard Rustin Educational Complex

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neatly into the current academic system: in essence, we are seeking to redesign our very way of thinking to impact the world by impacting ourselves. —Joi Ito Conclusion Once you learn to see a certain pattern you can begin to recognize it everywhere you look. If all living things, for instance, evolve

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to tell war stories, some of the most harrowing involve creative partnerships gone wrong. “Who’s the other writer?” I asked, just out of curiosity. “Joi Ito,” he said. “Oh,” I said. “In that case, yes.” I’d written a short profile of Joi for Wired magazine in 2003. He was one

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in part, to the memory of John Melfi. I’ll see you in Nymphana, buddy, where the lines are always tight. About the Authors Joichi “Joi” Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate of emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom. As director of the

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, https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/cypherpunk.manifesto. 32 Joichi Ito, “Shenzhen Trip Report—Visiting the World’s Manufacturing Ecosystem,” Joi Ito’s Web, September 1, 2014, http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2014/09/01/shenzhen-trip-r.html. 33 “Phantom Series—Intelligent Drones,” DJI, http://www.dji.com/products/phantom. 34

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/2014/08/11/why-one-of-cybersecuritys-thought-leaders-uses-a-pager-instead-of-a-smart-phone/. Chapter 9: Systems over Objects 1 Communication with Joi Ito. 2 Interview with Jeff Howe. 3 Ferris Jabr and Scientific American staff, “Know Your Neurons: What Is the Ration of Glia to Neurons in the

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown  · 12 Apr 2010  · 319pp  · 89,477 words

paper, and to related networks like the postal or telephone system, maintaining social relationships with these new technologies is far easier. The story of how Joi Ito united a diverse group of technologists and human rights advocates, all of whom he knew personally, indicates just how useful and efficient these digitally integrated

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to find what we need when we need it. This is the first level of pull, as shown in the diagram on the next page. Joi Ito experienced this principle firsthand not long ago while traveling. Joi, as it happens, is about as experienced a traveler as they come. In his multiple

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today many of us live in a number of different places over the course of our lives. Some of us, such as Yossi Vardi and Joi Ito, have become perpetual nomads, moving restlessly from one city to the next, rarely stopping long enough to catch our breath, much less settle in. In

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we seek to maintain contact with the people we encounter in our travels. It is no accident that constant travelers such as Yossi Vardi and Joi Ito are deeply immersed in selected virtual environments. The physical and virtual worlds are not an either/or proposition but rather a question of how best

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. For many institutional leaders, going to the edge will involve facing down their own fears. Embracing the new always creates perceptions of risk. Just as Joi Ito went to Dubai, just as Jack Hidar y wandered into a conference where he didn’t know the acronyms or the topics—all of us

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professional networks as assets that can be leveraged not just for our own personal success, but to help amplify the success of others. People like Joi Ito, Yossi Vardi, and Ellen Levy deeply understand this principle and apply it in their personal lives. WE LIVE IN TURBULENT TIMES. Faced with such turbulence

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resistance from the institutional environments in which we live so much of our lives—companies, schools, nonprofits, and governments. The examples of people such as Joi Ito, Yossi Vardi, Ellen Levy, Jack Hidary, and Tara Lemmey stand out as exceptional in part because few of us have yet to fully grasp the

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would have otherwise been. Finally, we’d like to thank the people profiled in this book who were so generous with their time: Jack Hidary, Joi Ito, Tara Lemmey, Ellen Levy, and Yossi Vardi. Notes Introduction 1 The term “soul surfer” is used to “describe a talented surfer who surfs for the

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, “Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web,” Wired, November 24, 2008. 2 This account is drawn from conversations and e-mail exchanges with Joi Ito and other people who were involved in this effort to support the protest movement’s freedom of expression. 3 Dunbar fixed his number at approximately

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky  · 28 Feb 2008  · 313pp  · 95,077 words

average member of the network can support than from increasing the number of connections that the most connected people can support. Bridging Capital, 24/7 Joi Ito is variously an investor, a writer, a hardcore gamer, and a member of the board of scores of companies and nonprofits. His address book contains

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a host.” He used his name both because he is recognized in so many communities (this isn’t vanity, just observation—a Web search for “Joi Ito” brings up nearly a million results) and because he wanted to be able to exert some sort of moral suasion over the proceedings. If the

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logged in less and less often; there are people on #joiito around the clock and around the world who do not need a lot of Joi Ito to make it happen. (Dodgeball similarly relies on its users’ social capital to help broker introductions without requiring that they be present.) In this way

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thinkers with whom I’ve had illuminating conversations include Cate Corcoran, Cory Doctorow, Ze Frank, Dan Gillmor, Adam Greenfield, Bruno Guissani, Jeff Howe, David Isenberg, Joi Ito, Xeni Jardin, Steven Johnson, Matt Jones, Quinn Norton, Danny O’Brien, Kevin Slavin, Alice Taylor, and David Weinberger. Business colleagues who have provided both observations

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software to be downloaded and run on your PC; however, many long-lived IRC groups also maintain webpages. Information about #joiito can be found at joi.ito.com (where else?); information about the #winprog group is at winprog.org. Page 229: “The Social Origins of Good Ideas,” Ronald S.Burt, American Journal

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

by Lawrence Lessig  · 2 Jan 2009

helps individuals link their own user pages with others, both friends and those within their musical “neighborhood.” As Japanese venture capitalist (and Last.fm investor) Joi Ito described it to me, The Last.fm community originally was, and may still be, revolving around the cleaning up of the data. So if you

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this sort of community. Many (perhaps most) of the most interesting virtual games have this component built in. Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist (and gamer) Joi Ito describes the community in perhaps the Net’s most popular game, World of Warcraft: “[T]he game emphasizes the necessity for a group. As an

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differing degrees, with the other interviewees who appear throughout the book: Brian Behlendorf, Marc Brandon, Candice Breitz, Stewart Butterfield, Steve Chen, Gregg Gillis, Mark Hosier, Joi Ito, Mimi Ito, Don Joyce, Brewster Kahle, Heather Lawver, Declan McCullagh, Dave Marglin, Craig Newmark, Silvia Ochoa, Tim O’Reilly, Philip Rosedale, Mark Shuttleworth, Johan Söderberg

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

it comes to gamification, is training. The complexity of some of today’s games provides an excellent education in leadership and teamwork skills. In fact, Joi Ito has observed that becoming an effective World of Warcraft guild master is tantamount to a total-immersion course in leadership. Indeed, what might seem like

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is that it can take on much bigger risks than a large one can. This can be seen clearly in the graph below—courtesy of Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab—which shows how startups are characterized by high upside potential and low downside, while large organizations are characterized by

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can look at the how an ExO maps onto other constructs. The following table compares ExO Attributes with Joi Ito’s MIT Media Lab Principles and the heuristics in Nassim Taleb’s Anti-Fragile theory. Joi Ito (MIT Medialab) Nassim Taleb (Anti-Fragile Theory) MTP Pull over push Compasses over maps Focus on the

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think that pretty much sums it up, and would only add that culture is a company’s greatest intangible asset. (As many have observed, including Joi Ito, head of the MIT Media Lab, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”) From the “HP Way” and IBM’s “Think” to Google’s playrooms and Twitter

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founder to large-company CEO, but he has also consistently avoided the short-term thinking that so often comes with running a public company—what Joi Ito calls “nowism.” Amazon regularly makes long bets (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Kindle, and now Fire smartphones and delivery drones), views new products as if

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey  · 27 Feb 2018  · 348pp  · 97,277 words

that a group like this encourage open innovation, so that potentially disruptive new ideas weren’t constrained by threatened gatekeepers. As MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito puts it, the online economy was not won by the closed-loop “intranets” of the early networking business—not by France Telecom’s Minitel system

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a constant source of inspiration. They shaped much of the thinking behind this book, probably without knowing it. Special thanks go to Media Lab Director Joi Ito, Digital Currency Initiative Director Neha Narula, and my Sloan School co-lecturer Simon Johnson, as well as to Robleh Ali, Mark Weber, Tadge Dryja, Chelsea

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.uk/research/Documents/workingpapers/2016/swp605.pdf. Describing the technology as “an operating system for marketplaces…”: http://hyperledger.org/about. As MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito: Ito has frequently made the comparison, including during remarks to MIT Technology Review’s “Business of Blockchain” conference, April 18, 2017. “Signing off on the

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith  · 17 Aug 2015  · 353pp  · 91,520 words

whether any form of lecture-based education makes sense in today’s world. And the evidence says it doesn’t. On the face of it, Joi Ito might seem an odd choice to head MIT’s Media Lab, one of our university system’s crown jewels. Ito didn’t graduate from college

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, 2014. Chapter 6. Teaching, Learning, and Assessing 1 Ito, Joi. “A week of a student’s electrodermal activity,” Ito’s blog, April 30, 2012. http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2012/04/30/a-week-of-a-stu.html (accessed Decmber 8, 2014). 2 Khan, Salman. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined (New

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

by Meredith Broussard  · 19 Apr 2018  · 245pp  · 83,272 words

. The economics of self-driving cars may come down to public perception. In a 2016 conversation between President Barack Obama and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, which was published in Wired, the two men talked about the future of autonomous vehicles.25 “The technology is essentially here,” Obama said. We have

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while allowing society to collect and share private (or sensitive) information for many worthy purposes.”6 Also in Cambridge, the MIT Media Lab under director Joi Ito is doing admirable work to change the narrative about racial and ethnic diversity in computer science and to start interrogating systems. Prompted by MIT graduate

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, Scott. “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World.” Wired, November 2016. https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-interview/. Daniel, Anna, and Terry Flew. “The Guardian Reportage of the UK MP Expenses Scandal: A Case Study of Computational Journalism.” In Communications Policy and

A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

by Warren Berger  · 4 Mar 2014  · 374pp  · 89,725 words

unfamiliar, and the unknown, we’re experiencing something not unlike early childhood. Everywhere we turn, there’s something to wonder and inquire about. MIT’s Joi Ito says that as we try to come to terms with a new reality that requires us to be lifelong learners (instead of just early-life

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of the brain. When innovators talk about the virtues of beginner’s mind or neoteny, to use the term favored by MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito, one of the desirable things they’re referring to is that state where you see things without labels, without categorization. Because once things have been

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quickly move from coming up with ideas to building and testing those ideas. The same is true at MIT Media Lab, where, as the director Joi Ito explains, the researchers and students don’t spend a lot of time wondering about the questions they’re pursuing, or debating how best to proceed

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston  · 14 Aug 2008  · 468pp  · 233,091 words

was the right thing to do. We weren’t desperate. We actually had a term sheet on the table for $1 million in investment from Joi Ito’s Neoteny (who ended up investing in Six Apart). And after 4 years of pouring my heart into Blogger, I saw a lot of risk

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share it with some friends. Movable Type became popular almost immediately on its launch in October 2001. In April 2003, Six Apart received funding from Joi Ito’s Neoteny. They launched their hosted service, TypePad, later that fall. In January 2005, the company announced the acquisition of Danga Interactive, the makers of

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rent and keeping things moving. Did you then try to seek out VC money? 408 Founders at Work Trott: No. We never sought out money. Joi Ito contacted us because he was using the product, and he was interested. He was actually probably more interested in just talking to us about what

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JavaSoft, 17, 18–19 Jennings, Peter, 76, 90 JFC (Swing Java toolkit), 154 Jobs, Steve, 31, 40–42, 56, 307 Joel on Software, 345, 347 Joi Ito’s Neoteny, 405 Jolna, Stacey, 202 JotSpot, 61–72, 71 Jurvetson, Steve, 20 Justin.tv, 449 K Kahle, Brewster, 265–280 Kan, Justin, 449 Kapor

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale  · 14 May 2020  · 1,172pp  · 114,305 words

Free Ride

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The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

by Justin Peters  · 11 Feb 2013  · 397pp  · 102,910 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

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How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

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Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines

by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby  · 23 May 2016  · 347pp  · 97,721 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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The Industries of the Future

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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, From Atoms to Economies

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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

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The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

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We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

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The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

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Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

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We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

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Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity

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The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing

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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

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A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income

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Distrust That Particular Flavor

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Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

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