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.

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

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

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

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.