Clay Shirky
communicate society change
“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”
― Clay Shirky
shirky - institution problem
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
— Clay Shirky
information overload filter failure
“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”
― Clay Shirky
communication tool social interesting technologically boring
“Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”
― Clay Shirky
social tool improvement challenge modern society
“Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.”
― Clay Shirky
wikipedia process product article
“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.”
― Clay Shirky
knowledge information human characteristic
“Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.”
― Clay Shirky
wikipedia product collectivism endless argumentation
“Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.”
― Clay Shirky
misfortune historical generation abundance scarcity
“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.”
― Clay Shirky
sharing group aggregate participant cooperate identity
“Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”
― Clay Shirky
personal value active passive creative consumptive
“Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.”
― Clay Shirky
revolution society adopt technology behaviour
“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”
― Clay Shirky