Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

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

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

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

[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.

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.