Clay Shirky is a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works. Clay Shirky is also author of the book “Here comes everybody”.

In the video above Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Source: TED



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