Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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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