With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves โ the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public โ has stopped being a problem.
Clay ShirkyEgalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
Clay Shirky