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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
Clay Shirky
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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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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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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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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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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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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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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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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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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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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
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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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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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