Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Quotes

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When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by loweri...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations