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

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.