The past ten years have been about discovering new ways to create, invent, and work together on the Web. The next ten years will be about applying those lessons to the real world.

Talk about “controlling the tools of production”: you (you!) can now set factories into motion with a mouse click.

Some of us say that we “live online,” but it’s not true when it comes to spending or living our everyday lives. Our commercial lives reside mostly in the real world of bricks and mortar, of food and clothes, of cars and houses, and, until some sci-fi future arrives where we’re just disembodied brains in vats, that will continue to be the case.

The biggest transformation is not in the way things are done, but in who’s doing it.

The beauty of the Web is that it democratized the tools both of invention and of production.

The simple act of “making in public” can become the engine of innovation, even if that was not the intent.

This ability—to manufacture “local or global” at will—is a huge advantage. That simple menu option compresses three centuries of industrial revolution into a single mouse click.

Bits are thrilling, but when it comes to the overall economy, it’s all about atoms.

As Marx observed, power belongs to those who control the means of production.