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media type="custom" key="20997478" align="right"Clay Shirky
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Quotes
Being given a dashboard without a steering wheel has never been the core promise a democracy makes to its citizens.

2015
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TED Talks
[|How the Internet will (one day) transform government] cooperation w/o coordination

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. … It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.”  You can guess what happened next, right? (Laughter) The outrage was so swift, so voluminous, so unanimous, that the Council of Argyll and Bute reversed themselves [|the same day and said, "We would,] we would never censor a nine-year-old." (Laughter) Except, of course, this morning. (Laughter) [|And this brings up the question,] what made them think they could get away with something like that? (Laughter) And the answer is, all of human history prior to now.

The bigger problem, of course, is power. The people experimenting with participation don't have legislative power, and the people who have legislative power are not experimenting with participation. They are experimenting with openness. There's no democracy worth the name that doesn't have a transparency move, but transparency is openness in only one direction, and being given a dashboard without a steering wheel has never been the core promise a democracy makes to its citizens.  media type="custom" key="20996626"

__Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea__ ** __ [|Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration] __ ** ** [|Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world] ** ** __ [|Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government] __ ** http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history

Features
[|The value of digital data]