Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.