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

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

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

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

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.