The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

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

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.