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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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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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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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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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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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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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[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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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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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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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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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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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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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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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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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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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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