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

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

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

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

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