Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

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.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

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

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.