Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

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

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

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