Here Comes Everybody

Clay Shirky claims that "we're living through the largest increase in human expressive capability in history". He explains how Ridiculously Easy Group-forming Improves: Sharing, Conversation, Collaboration and Collective Action and gives great examples showing how this is changing the society we're living in:

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[Chris Flanagan]

The real question is what are we going to do with all this capability?

In his book Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky wrote: “when we change the way we communicate, we change society.”

I’ve just written a profile about John Abele, retired founder of Boston Scientific and leader of the Grunion expedition - a global pursuit to find Abele’s father’s World War II submarine, lost at sea in the summer of 1942. Abele’s quest for the Grunion is about the power of social networking and, to use Shirky’s terminology, “organizing without organizations.” It’s about what happens when serendipity intersects with technology and human intent.

Drop me a line and I'll send you the story - it’s both inspiring and demonstrative of the power of collective capability.

[Gregor Einetter]

Chris, many thanks for sharing. Indeed, the story about Abele's father's submarine is definitely very interesting in this context.
Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/6785nx