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

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

Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

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

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

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

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.