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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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 use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.
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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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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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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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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'
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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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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity
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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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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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[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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