Shirky - Here Comes Everybody Exzerpt

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• "One obvious lesson is that new technology enables new kinds of group-forming." (p. 17)
• "In a way, every institution lives in a kind of contradiction: it exists to take advantage of group effort, but some of its resources are drained away by directing that effort." (p. 19)
• Birthday paradox (p. 24): "Imagine you are standing in line with thiry-five other people, and to pass the time, the guy in front of you propses a wager. He's willing to bet fifty dollars that no two people in line share birthday. Would you take that bet? (...) In fact, you should take the bet, since you would have better than 80 percent chance of winning fifty dollars."
• "A group's complexity grows faster than its size." (see also figur 2-1 on page 27)

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