&444/ Watch to Be Inspired: Companies Versus Networks

The long tail. The 80 20 rule.

I especially like: "Not leading from A to B, but from A to chaos. As happened back with the printing press!" These effects are anything but new.

Citing TED.com:

• The talk. "In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning."
• The speaker. "Clay Shirky's consulting focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting."

TED Oxford 2005, Clay Shirky. View the talk!