“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.” HumansUseIndividualToolsHuman LifeBeesColonyHives Author:Clay Shirky
“Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.” HumansSocialCausesHuman BeingsOur LivesEffectsCreaturesAccidentsCause And EffectSociability Book:Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.” KnowsHumansInformationCharacteristics Book:Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
“Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.” YearsHumansImportantIdeasHoursMillionsBecomingCreatingScalesReviewsWeekendAdsDevotedPeersVolunteerWikipediaHuman ThoughtCumulativePeer Review Author:Clay Shirky
“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.” HumansBreakGenerationsHistoricalAbundanceMisfortunesCapabilityExpansionHuman HistoryScarcityExpressive Author:Clay Shirky
