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
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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.
simple credit projects
[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
communication technology interesting
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
creativity trying problem
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
identity groups cooperating
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
technology want couches
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.
guy whether
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
believes equally remains somebody talent
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.
editing public putting reserved role
When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.
change chasm crack crossed giant gulf
There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.