Boring Quote by Clay Shirky Download Open image “Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.” — Clay Shirky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boring Effects Interesting Social Technology
Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — 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 pervasive as… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly. — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
I've always been interested with the idea of technology and the way technology affects our ability to communicate - our ability to have a… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind… — Jay Chiat 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 Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions. — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
