This is Tech

Excellent lecture by Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody. Watch the video at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

He gives some great examples of how the Internet is revolutionizing society. In short, the Internet allows the formation and coordination of large groups in a way that was previously not possible. Before the Internet, groups would break down once they get to a certain size because communication between group members becomes too burdensome.

Shirky does an excellent job of dissecting what is so revolutionary about Internet technology, and how it has and will change society in an order of magnitude greater than the printing press, movable type, the telegraph, telephone, recorded media, and broadcast technology.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Event Video/Audio) | Berkman Center: “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Event Video/Audio)
Clay Shirky discussed his new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.”

(Via Boing Boing.)