One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.