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.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

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

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

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

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'