One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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.

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

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors