Here comes everybody clay shirky p189-208
The prisoners dilemma
- nash equilibrium
- shadow of the future
“the shadow of the future makes it possible for me to act on your behalf today, even at some risk or cost to me, on the expectation that you will remember and reciprocate tomorrow”
MODERN LIFES DECREASE IN SOCIAL CAPITAL P193
“when an activity becomes more expensive, either in direct costs or increased hassle, people do less of it”
Increase in transaction costs of people getting together - two worker families - couch potatoes (tv, dvd, games)
- suburbanisation (live too far)
- cars (rather than bumping into people on the sidewalks)
Social tools like Meetup make coordination easier and help in discovery, which are the building blocks to generate social capital This ties in with “emergence” and adaptive systems, the less we interact the less chance (opportunity) of bottom up emergence
- social tools are enabling social capital Unlike the rational economic man driven by self interest we also have motivations that are unmarket like, like empathy and a craving for socialness
