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• Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and…
• It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private…
• Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so…
• The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long…
• What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on…
• Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
• It's not a revolution if nobody loses
• Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
• Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
• It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities…
• We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
• It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a…

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