“For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.” Has BeensWantedPoliticalDesirePoliticsStrongCan DoEffortGroupsModernTalentHavensLimitsStructureOperationsComplexityModern LifeGroup Effort Author:Clay Shirky
“Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.” MeanDoneJobsDifficultyPressesIncrediblesEvolveComplexityGoing AwayExpensesPublishingButtonsPublishCadre Author:Clay Shirky
“It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.” PeopleHappensPastFiguresSocial MediaComplexityDigital Marketing Author:Clay Shirky
“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.” ProblemFormIndustryEconomicsDifficultyStructureIncrediblesProductionsAvailableSolveCoreDestroyedDataComplexityDigitalExpensesPublishingReplacedOrganizationalPublishing Industry Author:Clay Shirky
