Highlights from Joi Ito at Accelerating Change:

The open Network means that bottom up and edge stuff can happen. He is on the board of ICANN - 'it is broken system but fixable' you can go there and participate (I plan to do just that this year in December in Vancouver). He asserted that "if we suck at what we do the internet will die" because it will become a cross between the cable company and the phone company.

Connecting the Culture - Creative Commons
Connecting the Content - HTML
Connecting the Network - TCP/IP
Connecting Computers - Ethernet

The killer app is people - and communication between them.

Creative Class has more similarities between itself around the world. The class differences within countries are more extreme.

Looking at file sharing as a new behavior. Instead of trying to kill it they should try to innovate new business. You don't try to force behavior change - you create new businesses after behavior change.