For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

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

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.