On 31/10/10 06:26, nettime's_roving_reporter wrote:
> Clay Shirky is the Internet's most prominent ponderer.
Who?
> Shirky's thinking runs like this: Two billion people are now online.
> Right now most of those people spend their free time watching
> television. As television watching (which is bad) is replaced by
> Internet surfing (which is good) people will combine to create
> worthwhile virtual projects that become civic capital.
That's in Benkler (2006) - who did he rip off?
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