Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky presented with much story telling and humor as well to captivate the audience. One example Shirky used in his presentation was Ushahidi, a website that informed readers of the events happening in Africa. It was made by a lawyer women who felt the people of Africa were not receiving enough information because the government is restricting the media. This connects to 1984 and how restricting it was. All the people don't care or try to start a movement until now man stepped out against them. This is just what the woman from Africa is trying to do, appose the government and get information out to people who need it despite the consequences. The restriction of government in Africa proves Cory Doctorow's prediction in Little Brother even though it did not happen in America. The world is starting to form to Cory's and Orwell's predication of how the world might become.
Pink wrote of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations such as the carrot and the stick. Shirky also speaks of intrinsic motivation through the helping of others because of an internal drive to do so. I believe that this plays a huge part for success which agrees with the ideas of Pink as well. Intrinsic motivations could mean the difference between being a couch potato and doing something worth while. Shirky talked about the importance of communal and civic values. I believe that both are important but both connect back with the woman who created Ushahidi, she had the intrinsic motivation to create it but it also had, at first communal value, and then civic value as it expanded to help more and more people.
Combining these two characteristics could help influence and change the world, which is exactly what our generation needs to do to make a difference.