When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

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.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

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

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.