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Clay Shirky Quotes about Technology

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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Clay Shirky
Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Clay Shirky
Knowledge, Learning, Technology
Web 2.0 Expo, www.cnn.com. 2008.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.

Clay Shirky
Communication, Technology, Profound

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

Clay Shirky
Real, Technology, People

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Clay Shirky
Technology, Media, Long

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

Clay Shirky
Technology, Interesting, Boring

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Clay Shirky
Communication, Technology, Interesting
Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.96, Penguin UK

What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

Clay Shirky
Technology, Thinking, Data
"Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". shirky.com. Spring, 2005.

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