What did Clay Shirky mean by: Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. Clay Shirky Writer · USA Copy
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. Read explanation Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Attention, Fame, Imbalance, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. ‘I’ll call you when I get there.’ Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Communication, Dependency, Spontaneity, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Effects, Social, Technology, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
Tools get socially interesting after they’re no longer technologically interesting. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Innovation, Relevance, Society, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
Upgrading one’s imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Faith, Imagination, Possibility, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
One of the best ways to know you’re completely wrong, is to behave as if you’re complete right. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Arrogance, Humility, Ignorance, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Preservation, Problem, Solution, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
Wikipedia […] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Clay Shirky, Argumentation, Individualism, Knowledge, 0 Clay Shirky Writer · USA
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience – a non-art-world audience. Jenny Holzer Artist
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
