"We are the sharing species; the reason we can even worry about a sustainable environment is because our sharing made us so successful that seven billion of us have begun to overwhelm the natural world."

"A landline connects you to a place: you ring a number to a specific telephone in a specific location. A mobile connects you to a person."

Mobiles give us a legitimate connection to nearly every human on earth. Landlines could only give us connections to places.

A manifesto for making the next one billion seconds about distributed, open, and secure software platforms. We should no longer surrender our most vital personal details to a closed-source system. It’s your social data, own it.

"Wikileaks is the press, but not the press as we have known it. This is the press of the 21st century, the press that comes after we’re all connected. Suddenly, all of the friendliest computers have become the deadliest weapons, and we are fenced in, encircled by threats – which are also opportunities."

"The future is connected in a way we could not conceive of a generation ago, in a way that our great-great-grandparents would consider unremarkable. We’re returning to an old place, but with new tools, and that combination will change everything, whether or not we see it coming, whether or not we want it to come."

"It is almost impossible to bridge the barriers that separate us from one another, even when we’re living on top of each other.

This is where the mobile becomes important, because the mobile is the singular social device."

An essay on love, war, and the connected nature of human relations.

Technology, cloud storage, and what it can do for education. First, we need to change ourselves a bit.

"Leah’s child will grow up in a world which has begun to fetishize human connection."

An effort to create a post-once-share-everywhere social network/service.

"History never repeats, but it does rhyme.  We share everything now; we worry that we overshare.  Now it’s time to take our sharing to the next level.  We need a social2.0, something that reflects what we’ve learned in the past half-dozen years."