Clay Shirky





Clay Shirky

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Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.

In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Shirky is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology -- how our networks shape culture and...more


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My friend Will Morrell, brilliant and sardonic, was the first person I ever knew to make his living close to the machine. A few years after we got out of college, he got a job in New York designing DSP chips for pinball machines, and crashed with me for a couple of months. During his stay, he convinced me I could dump my theater career in favor of finding a way to make my living on the internet...

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“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”
Clay Shirky

“Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations



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