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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angeles centered cities english fifty group landscape los people period relatively stable talking three unusually
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.
access cafe printing public radio television tower
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
air urban
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.
addicted changes changing hesitate historical moderation negative science strikes taken
I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.
designed designers good intended people piece software
You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for.
clinical critical exchange open technical using
We demonstrated the exchange of clinical information, by using a critical set of common, open technical standards.
anyone anytime client
Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost.
both difference global people resources scale social tension
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.
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.
successful effort gains
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
done world littles
We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.