We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

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.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses