Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
When we change the way we communicate, we change society. - Clay Shirky
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
- Clay Shirky
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
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.
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, …
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.
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.
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure. - Clay Shirky
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure. - Clay Shirky
There's no such thing as information overload-only 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.
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