Have you seen slide 19 in the previous entry? It cites Clay Shirky: "A revolution doesn't happen when a society adopts new tools.
It happens when society adapts new behaviors."
Taking the train back from Munich yesterday, it was for the first time in quite a while that I watched some TED talks on my iPhone. I realized what I miss not watching them regularly. Clay Shirky, to name one.
Citing TED.com:
- The talk. "While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics."
- The speaker. "Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet's effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works."
TED Talks 2009, Clay Shirky. View the talk!
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