Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJCcDiD-zw
Clay Shirky's lucid and penetrating analysis steers you through the online social explosion asking: what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organisational structures?

Comments

• This is still fascinating years later, but when he explained what Twitter was I wasn’t sure if I should stop watching or laugh
• Around the 10:40 mark he describes a non-productive tool made for a non-productive group being used as incredibly productive. This is very similar to Hayek's argument for allowing people to be wealthy (because of their lifestyle innovation).

Other Commentary

• shirky-at-nfais-how-abundance-breaks-everything

See Also

• Bob Garfield - The Chaos Scenario

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