Free Event: Hear from BIF Research Advisor Clay Shirky on Feb. 28th in Boston

BIF Research Advisor will be talking about his new book Here Comes Everybody this Thursday, February 28th at Harvard's Berkman Center.

Here's the skinny on this free event:

One of the culture’s wisest observers of the transformational power of the new forms of tech-enabled social interaction is Clay Shirky, and Here Comes Everybody is his marvelous reckoning with the ramifications of all this on what we do and who we are. Like Lawrence Lessig on the effect of new technology on regimes of cultural creation, Shirky’s assessment of the impact of new technology on the nature and use of groups is marvelously broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of other thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, wikiculture, wikievery imaginable interest group, including the far from savory. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler.

And here's the link to learn more. If anyone from our community goes, let me know - I'd love to hear your thoughts on Clay's interesting points-of-view.

Posted February 25, 2008 05:54 PM by Chris Flanagan | Permalink