Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'