It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

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

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

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

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table