Shirky, C., 2008, Here Comes Everybody, Penguin Books, London
- Author : Shirky, C.
- Year : 2008
- Title English : Here Comes Everybody
- Publisher : Penguin Books
- Publisher's Location : London
- ISBN : 978-0-141-03062-3
- Pages : 344
- Edition : Paperback
- Comments : "Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it’s ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it’s here and, as Clay Shirky shows, it’s affecting … well, everybody. For the first time, we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they’re going to change our whole world. " From Amazon.co.uk p. 22 The current change, in one sentance, is this: most of the barriers to group action have collapsed, and without those barriers, we are free to explore new ways of gathering together and getting things done. p. 155 In a world where group action means gathering face to face, people who need to act as a group should, ideally, be physically near to one another. Now that we have ridiculously easy group forming, however, that stricture is relaxed, and the result is that organisations that assume geography as a core organising principle, even ones which have been operating that way for centuries, are now facing challenges to that previously bedrock principle.