Word: dyson
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...DYSON: I'd like to argue strenuously with that. It may be happening in the U.S., but it's not happening in China, which is extremely nationalist. In Russia, I don't know any Russians who feel anything other than Russian. A brand does not replace a nationality...
...DYSON: No. But if I have a choice about whether or not I go to college or where I'm going to work or what job I have, that's a valuable choice...
...DYSON: It's much harder to maintain power when everything is transparent, when there's always someone, some outlier coming in, when the discussion is never closed. I don't even think that Google has that much power because its hold on it is tentative. It can easily be eroded...
...DYSON: The fundamental change is that most individuals have more choice. They also have more responsibility: if they don't like the way things are, they can't complain as much--at least not with moral justification. And not everybody likes that. It can be comfortable just to follow orders. But if you consider that most people have a better chance of getting what they want because they have more choices, then by and large, there's progress. People have more choice: they have more power "to," even though they don't have more power "over...
...DYSON: I think the new avenues are effective. You don't notice them because there are more of them. Do you have to be the Beatles to be realized as a creative artist? Do you have to be Bill Gates to be a business success? The whole point of the new market is that it's much more distributed. People find tighter but smaller audiences, what we call "the long tail." It's better than having these fundamentally fictitious hits created by marketing...