By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.