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.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

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

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

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