We knew love made the world go around, but now we know it also makes the World Wide Web go ’round.
Clay Shirky, speaking at the Supernova 2007 conference, delivers a brief and beautiful opening “provocation,” describing how networking tools (like email and mailing lists) turn love into “a renewable building material.” The result is not only open source software like Perl, Apache, and Linux, but collaborative projects like Wikipedia and tsunami relief.
We have always loved one another. We’re human. It’s something we’re good at. But up until recently, the radius and half-life of that affection has been quite limited… In the past, we would do little things for love, but big things, big things required money. Now, we can do big things for love.
View the video at Video: Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style.
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