Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

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

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

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

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

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

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.