Penguin Podcast 51 - Here Comes Somebody
Clay Shirky visited our studios last week to tell us about himself, his new book and the technologies that are affecting all of our lives.
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Our age’s new technologies of
social networking are evolving, and evolving us. New groups are doing
new things in new ways, and we’re doing the old things better and more
easily. Business models are being transformed at dizzying speeds, and
the larger social impact is in a way so profound that it’s
under-appreciated. In Here Comes Everybody, one of the culture’s wisest
observers give us his lucid and penetrating analysis on what this means
for what we do and who we are.
A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each
other on-line and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite
design in decades. A few people find that a world-class on-line
encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers and open for editing by
anyone, a wiki, is not an impractical idea. Jihadi groups trade
instruction entirely on-line.
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