The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.