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 is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

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.