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

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

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

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.