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

For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

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

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.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.