Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.