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.'
technology interesting boring
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
gorillas life-is social
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
burden-of-proof bills thieves
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.
technology thinking data
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.
technology media long
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
used used-to-be security
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.
wikipedia process articles
A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
our-society prevention reactions
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
come-up
Curation comes up when search stops working,
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.
tools use bees
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.
clinical critical exchange open technical using
We demonstrated the exchange of clinical information, by using a critical set of common, open technical standards.