Clay Shirky: Institutions Vs. Collaboration

We're supposed to be getting good at being aware of situations and solving problems in groups. Institutions do it because they get paid money to do it. People do it on their own because they get paid with attention, knowledge or fun while potentially solving hard problems that institutions ignore.

Growing a network is always good, because multiplies the brain power on any topic--being in the network helps you get the questions out to the experts and from there, the answers and ideas just begin to flow.

They just didn't know how powerful the Internet was going to make humanity when they invented it, they were just trying to make a system that would survive a nuclear war.

We only have to reach out and grab the WIN.

You can bet on it.

this could be a political model for the next generation

Thanks to compelled2283 for sharing.

I wish I could sum up my feelings on this to a paragraph, but I can't.

I think this collaborative sharing phenomenon is wonderful. But, I also think it is "the revealing", long foretold... Many will see, few will understand. All of Humanity is a single organism. If we fail to recognize this, individually, we shall perish.

Just my two cents worth...

Fascinating (the vid)!

IM PSYCHO MILT

just applying the pareto principle.

screw socialists!!

You take the time to translate it and that's really nice of you. I was just saying you shouldn't expect truckloads of spontaneous help with that part.

To be honest, if someone were to read every license agreement of everything they use, (or even just software) it would probably take a year out of their life if not more.

It isn't just a question of laziness or translation, sometimes the time is worth more than the risk.

I'm curious. Can you message me an URL?

I can agree to a point with this. Pages of boredom will fail. That is why 98% of working aged Americans will be taken adavantage of. They refuse to read some of those pages of boredome. Sadly the medical insurance industry knows this of people...

That equals people being abused all due to them not knowing some boring information they have around them 24/7 for free to access.

Knowledge is only POWER when the people who it is meant for can relate to it, and grasp it.

I translate it.

I love this whole premise. And have been working on a collaboration system for cross-organization coordinated actions.

Science loves Liberty.

Peace

SpinergyDude.
I don't think your system will work.
I don't know how your infrastructure works, but if it doesn't have a competitive advantage on wikinews+the blogosphere+wikileaks, it is doomed.

To give an example, wikileaks tried a cooperative system to verify the veracity of leaked documents and whistleblower accusations. It didn't work because people have little incentive to pour over pages of pure boredom that might even be totally useless or false. So they institutionalised that part.

first we have to get old established organizations and institutions to wake up and listen and actually consider the value! A deeply impeding issue i deal with frequently.