The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

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

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

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

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

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