Best sentence I’ve read in a long time
on Jan 11 in Technology tagged by Trevor HicksClay Shirky discussing the new modes of collaboration made possible by the Internet:
The beneficiaries of the system where making things public was a privileged activity, whether academics or politicians, reporters or doctors, will complain about the way the new abundance of public thought upends the old order, but those complaints are like keening at a wake; the change they fear is already in the past.
Gatekeepers of information had their value, Walter Cronkite had enormous power, for good or ill, to focus the nation on certain issues. As Shirky points out, though, the discussion is no longer on whether we should have gatekeepers, but we should we do now that they are gone? By the way, the Edge Annual Question is never a bad site to spend a few hours.
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