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The easier it is for the average person to publish, the more average what gets published becomes.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
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While we conventionally think of ourselves as “using the internet,” we are simultaneously and undeniably a part of it . We are both creators and the created. We are man and machine, becoming a new kind of man-machine being, beyond any one person’s conceptualization.
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
My thesis is “If there’s valuable information in people’s heads, it’ll eventually be on the internet”.
Erik Torenberg • The Promise of Peer-to-Peer Credentials
We all missed the big story. Neither old ABC nor startup Yahoo! created the content for 5,000 web channels. Instead billions of users created the content for all the other users. There weren’t 5,000 channels but 500 million channels, all customer generated.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
writer Kevin Drum, ‘The internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.’
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
New in the Screenshot Essays series: Humble Giants are
Unbundling the Internet:
http://estromberg.com/humble-giants