The cognitive surplus – Clay Shirky
May 12th, 2008
A bit long-winded (he’s an academic) but when he finally makes his point at the end, it’s a pretty good one.
Actually, John Walker, co-founder founder of AutoCAD, made this same point brilliantly way back in the early nineties. The folks who are going to make a killing in software, he said, are the folks who create tools that let people make their own stuff.
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