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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
In his 2008 book Here Comes Everybody, media theorist Clay Shirky suggests a useful hierarchy for sorting through these new social arrangements, ranked by the increasing degree of coordination employed. Groups of people start off simply sharing with a minimum of coordination, and then progress to cooperation, then to collaboration, and finally to c
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
less of an organisation delivering for people and more of an open-source social movement, or as Leonard puts it, ‘instead of us being the hero, being a hero among heroes.’110
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
According to Falkvinge: ‘everybody can change the world if he or she is passionate about a specific change, and that change is tangible, credible, inclusive, and epic enough to attract a swarm’25 which he defined as ‘a decentralized, collaborative effort of volunteers that looks like a hierarchical, traditional organization from the outside. It is
... See moreBrian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
If it is true that the era of collective experimentation online was short lived, then the next interesting question is why. One hypothesis that I’m intrigued with is rooted less in technological changes and more in social ones. Shirky’s dictum that revolutions start from behavioral change rather than from technological change helps us also explain ... See more