"Using art to convey a message, without understanding the form, structure, materials, techniques and history of the medium, is rather like setting out on a rescue mission on a foggy ocean in an unseaworthy lifeboat with no navigational skills." — Excerpt from Art & Soul by Hilary Brand & Adrienne Chaplin
We need to fashion information tools that are designed to combat agnotological rot. Like Wikipedia: It encourages users to build real knowledge through consensus, and the result manages to (mostly) satisfy even people who hate each other's guts. — Clive Thompson - Wired Magazine, 2/09