Transcript of a speech given by Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 Conference

“Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, believe that expanding their company’s lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., has become a necessity.”

“Online mapping is evolving into a historic nexus of disparate technologies and communities that is changing the fundamental use of the Internet, as well as redefining the concept of maps in our culture.”

‘Provides a web services API for computers to integrate “artificial, artificial intelligence” directly into their processing by making requests of humans.’

“The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream”