Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

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

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

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 moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

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.

Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.