Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organi...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

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Here Comes Everybody follows this tradition. For Shirky, this essential excitement comes down to an optimism about the open-ended possibilities of organizational forms made viable by the web.

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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

Clay Shirky

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We can now turn massive aggregations of small contributions into things of lasting value. This fact, key to our current era, has been a persistent surprise. At every turn, skeptical observers have attacked the idea that pooling our cognitive surplus could work to create anything worthwhile.