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

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.