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


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It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.



Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'



There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.



The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.



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 never participate.

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 never participate.



We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.



Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.



A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors



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

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



The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.





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