Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

* - sharing

Revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technologies - it happens when society adopts new behaviors.

For people with a professional outlook, it's hard to understand how something that isn't professionally produced could affect them.

People like to consume media, but they also like to produce it ("Look what I made!") and share it ("Look what I found!").

The downside of fame : being unable to reciprocate in the way our friends and colleagues would like us to.

Filter-then-publish rested on a scarcity of media that is a thing of the past. The only working system is publish-then-filter.

Individuals in group settings exhibit behaviors that no one could predict by studying single minds. No one has ever been bashful or extroverted while sitting alone in their room, no one can be a social climber or a man of the people without reference to society, and these characteristics exist because groups are not just simple aggregations of indi... See more

From now on, news can break into public consciousness without the traditional press weighing in. The news media can end up covering the story *because* something has broken into public consciousness via other means.

Most professions exist because there is a scarce resource that requires ongoing management : librarians are responsible for organizing books on the shelves, newspaper execs are responsible for deciding what goes on the front page. The scarcity of the resource itself creates the need for a professional class.

No effort at creating group value can be successful without some form of governance. People are basically good, when they are in circumstances that reward goodness while restraining impulses to defect.