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
hands multitasking distraction
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
challenges tools improvement
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
technology interesting boring
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
imagination upgrading leap-of-faith
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
knowledge learning technology
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
thinking years ideas
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.
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
burden-of-proof bills thieves
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.
age world citizens
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
funny thoughtful focus
So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.
way communicate
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
information underestimate access
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
revolution tools behavior
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
middle minors optional
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.