One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

All you have to do is mate.

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why.