social media 6
- The most important thing a network gives us is access to one another
- Media is the connective tissue of society
Clay Shirky
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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What Clay Shirky says most about
education 5
- Higher education has a bad case of Baumol's cost disease.
- Open courses will raise quality faster than traditional colleges can cut cost or grow enrollment.
journalism 5
- There is no general model to replace the newspaper business the internet broke.
- What replaces newspapers will come from lots of small experiments.
innovation 3
- What replaces newspapers will come from lots of small experiments.
- Inventing a tool does not by itself create change
simplicity 3
- When an ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, the people who work simply decide the future.
- In a bureaucracy it is easier to add complexity than to remove it.
agency 2
- Group action gives human society its particular character
- Most of the barriers to group action have collapsed