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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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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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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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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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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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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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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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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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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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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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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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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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So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.
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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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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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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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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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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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