Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

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

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

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

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.