What Clay Shirky thinks about innovation
American writer on the social and economic effects of the internet, author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010); has taught at New York University.
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3 dated positions, c. 2008 to 2009, in their own words. Our reading of what Clay Shirky has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsNow is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments, each of which will seem as minor at launch as craigslist did, as Wikipedia did, as octavo volumes did.
↗Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkableshirky.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsCommunications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
↗Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (The Penguin Press, 2008)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsThe invention of a tool doesn’t create change
↗Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (The Penguin Press, 2008)archive.org All 6 from this book