Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. Clay Shirky More Quotes by Clay Shirky More Quotes From Clay Shirky The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs. Clay Shirky tasks agreement people We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online. Clay Shirky citizens age world Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith. Clay Shirky upgrading leap-of-faith imagination How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. Clay Shirky issues talent social The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share. Clay Shirky burden-of-proof thieves bills Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. Clay Shirky boring technology interesting Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. Clay Shirky gorillas social life-is Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one. Clay Shirky burden easier law Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community. Clay Shirky information community people Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. Clay Shirky motivation behavior opportunity Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. Clay Shirky erotic sacred years If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution. Clay Shirky predictable revolution ifs The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. Clay Shirky quality media goal Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity Clay Shirky behavior identity mean The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants. Clay Shirky tools use bees If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. Clay Shirky pay people way One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction. Clay Shirky prevention reactions our-society Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. Clay Shirky definitions law average Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows. Clay Shirky characteristics information humans Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. Clay Shirky imbalance fame attention
