We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
Clay ShirkyCommunications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
Clay ShirkyThe transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
Clay ShirkyCommunications 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 ShirkyFor most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.
Clay Shirky