Here Comes Everybody Av Clay Shirky

<p><b>Clay Shirky''s international bestseller <i>Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together </i>explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society.</b><br><br> Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it''s ever been: unpaid volunteers build Wikipedia 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. <br><br> 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.<br><br> For the first time, we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they''re going to change our whole world.<br><br> ''As cri