Shirky - end of audience

Clay Shirkys work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks -- using peer-to-peer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and open-source development (participatory media). New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts etc. This is an alternative to centralized and institutional structures which he see's as limiting. In his writings and speeches he has argued that "a group is its own worst enemy."