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Clay Shirky
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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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.
Clay Shirky
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
Clay Shirky
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
Clay Shirky
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
Clay Shirky
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
Clay Shirky
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
Clay Shirky
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
Clay Shirky
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.
Clay Shirky
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
Clay Shirky
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
Clay Shirky
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Clay Shirky
One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
Clay Shirky
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Clay Shirky
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
Clay Shirky
Society is not just the product of its individual members it is also the product of its constituent groups.
Clay Shirky
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.
Clay Shirky
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
Clay Shirky
Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
Clay Shirky
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
Clay Shirky
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
Clay Shirky