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
technology want couches
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
communication technology interesting
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
simple credit projects
[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
information underestimate access
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
revolution tools behavior
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
knowledge learning technology
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
challenges tools improvement
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
information filters information-overload
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
hands multitasking distraction
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
revolution loses ifs
It's not a revolution if nobody loses
technology interesting boring
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
issues talent social
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.
party waterfalls method
The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
interesting tools
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.