-" If learners are indeed doers and not recipients, from whom are they learning? From one another, it appears; same as it ever was."

-" the landmark study in Nature that showed “few differences in
accuracy” between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica."

-"There is a bogglingly complex and well-staffed system for dealing with errors and disputes on
Wikipedia. There are special tools provided to volunteers for preventing vandalism, decreasing
administrative workload and so on"

-McLuhan foresaw. “If the printing
press empowered the individual, the digital world empowers collaboration.”

Key words concepts/themes

-Wikipedia is just as accurate as an encyclopedia and shouldn't be disregarded

-Wikipedia is a collaborative space for people to share they're knowledge and

-software and other tools are used to help volunteers who go through and make sure wikipedia isn't graffiti

-we as people have always learned and progressed by sharing and communicating with each other just as before the digital age

-"Reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely. There are faint traces of the voices of various anonymous authors and editors, though it is impossible to be sure"

-"Wikipedia now represents smart chaos, or bottom up power,
or decentralized being, or out of control goodness, or what I seemed to have called for the lack of a better term: the hive mind"

-"for a big part of the tech world, these sorts of mash-ups are becoming the highest form of cultural production."

-"' Wiki technology allow individual voices to survive even as consensus is
reached. At the same time, there is certainly a collective will — one that may make mistakes, but also attempts to keep itself in check through emergent policies, guidelines,
and elements of bureaucracy."'

-"Wikipedia isn't great because it's like the Britannica. The Britannica is great at being
authoritative, edited, expensive, and monolithic. Wikipedia is great at being free, brawling,
universal, and instantaneous."

-"Wikipedia captures the imagination not because it is so perfect, but because it is reasonably good in many cases: a proposition that would have been thought preposterous a mere half-decade ago"

Key words concepts/ themes

-Wikipedia seems to be villainized based off the fact its competing like an AI of sorts and doesn't have clear authors

-All of these collective voices make it os its diverse on wikipedia and allows for people to get creative

-Wikipedia is not trying to be perfect, but it promotes a collaborative space for producing knowledge without limits

-The use of technology isn't a representation of moral failing, but rather reflects how t influences our expression

-though there my be unchecked powers that can effect large groups it isn't strong enough to systematic threats.

-"“I discovered a stock photo site called iStockphoto,” she wrote, “which has images at very affordable
prices.” That was an understatement. The same day, Menashe licensed 56 pictures through iStockphoto – for about $1 each."

-"In 2000, Harmel made roughly $69,000 from a portfolio of 100 stock photographs, a tidy addition to what he earned from
commissioned work. Last year his stock business generated less money – $59,000 – from more than
1,000 photos. That’s quite a bit more work for less money"

-"A single 30-minute episode costs somewhere in the mid-five figures – about
a tenth of what the channel pays to produce so noTORIous,"

-"The average half hour of network TV comedy now costs nearly $1 million to produce."

-"The companies – or seekers, in InnoCentive parlance – pay solvers anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 per solution."

Keywords concepts/themes

-Crowd souring enabled people to participate such like wikipedia

-Crowdsourcing exposed important issues that the media had missed

-Tension seemed to have risen between crowns and individualism as difference in opinions could be either it promotes individuality or it suppresses unique voices.

-It fostered new communities to come together and share needs and experiences