I quoted from Interface Culture by Steven Johnson recently.
He also once said this in an interview (emphasis mine)
I suspect, I’ve been incredibly energized by all the grassroots Web 2.0 applications that have exploded over the past few years, most of them descendants of Firefly in one way or another. (Someone — and come to think of it, it’s probably me — should go back and track all the core ingredients of today’s Web that were visible at Firefly circa 1996.)
That parenthetical is my current project. It’s taking me in all sorts of directions.