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

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“[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.”

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To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools…

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“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”

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“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the…

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More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

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“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media…

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Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

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Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy…

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If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

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Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their…

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Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who…

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The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…

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I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said…

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The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

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We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all…

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Note to self: If you do not know how to spell a big scary spiders name, DO NOT look it up on the internet.…

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I remembered reading about a disease called Leishmaniasis, which matched my symptoms. I'd always thought it was an old wives' tale - a sand…

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The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…

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I don't have faith in the Internet, I have faith in people connected through the Internet.

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The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

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One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance…

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