Joichi Ito

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.