The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

[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.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.