The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

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

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.