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

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

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

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

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

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.

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