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.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

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

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

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