Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

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

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.