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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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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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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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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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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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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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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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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 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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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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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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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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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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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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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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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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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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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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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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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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