Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

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

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

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