Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirkyis an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
Clay Shirky quotes about
why-not internet mass
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
moving collaboration cooperation
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
self giving pages
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
thinking feelings
We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
law burden process
Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.
jobs algorithms flaws
Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
thinking important world
Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.
causes social cause-and-effect
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
thinking years interesting
More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.
gorillas life-is social
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
thinking revolution admitting
It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
challenges done internet
The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.
promise tools needs
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
inspiration people stones
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.