Clay Shirky Quotes
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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.
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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.
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It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
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The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
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[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.
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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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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.
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For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.
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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
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There is no news industry.
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The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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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.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
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