Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirkyis an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
loss past
The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
come-up
Curation comes up when search stops working,
people community information
Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
motivation opportunity behavior
Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
years erotic sacred
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
revolution ifs predictable
If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.
members profession
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
collaboration absolutes
Collaboration is not an absolute good.
groups individual members
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
class capability transfers
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
media goal quality
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.
principles problem dedicated
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.
attention imbalance fame
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
information characteristics humans
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.