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

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

[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.

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.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.