[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
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, …
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.
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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