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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
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Columbia
Missouri
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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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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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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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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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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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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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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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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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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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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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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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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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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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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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