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 ShirkyIf itโs a revolution it canโt be predictable. And if itโs predictable it canโt be a revolution.
Clay Shirky