01c. 1964 ADThe future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?Clay Shirky / quote ↗
02c. 1964 ADUntil recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
03c. 1964 ADOur social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
05c. 1964 ADBecause Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
06c. 1964 ADThe basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
07c. 1964 ADOne of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...Clay Shirky / quote ↗
08c. 1964 ADI would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
09c. 1964 ADThere is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
10c. 1964 ADThe tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.Clay Shirky / quote ↗
