It's not a revolution if nobody loses

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

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

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.