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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.
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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
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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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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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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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