Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share
“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share
“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing. — Clay Shirky Copy Share
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![“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.” quote by Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a6d/clay-shirky-3364_first-place_b-ecause-the-minimum-costs-of-being-an-o_874307.png)
