The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

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

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.

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

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.