There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

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.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

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.

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

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.