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

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

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

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

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