Clay Shirky Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

  Clay Shirky

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

• Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

  Clay Shirky

  Communication, Technology, Interesting

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.96, Penguin UK

• It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

  Clay Shirky

  Knowledge, Learning, Technology

  Web 2.0 Expo, www.cnn.com. 2008.

• Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

  Clay Shirky

  Real, Technology, People

• Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Interesting, Boring

• 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 to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.

  Clay Shirky

  Communication, Technology, Profound

• The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Media, Long

• What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Thinking, Data

  "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". shirky.com. Spring, 2005.

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