What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors - Clay Shirky
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
- Clay Shirky
When we change the way we communicate, we change society. - Clay Shirky
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. - Clay Shirky
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other. - Clay Shirky
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws. - Clay Shirky
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, … - Clay Shirky
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, …
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure. - Clay Shirky
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. - Clay Shirky
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure. - Clay Shirky
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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