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It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

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

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

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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, …

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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

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

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

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

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

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