Big Things for Love

Best thing I read today about love:

We have always loved one another. We’re human, its something we’re good at. But up until recently, the radius and half-life of that affection has always been quite limited. With love alone, you can get together a birthday party. Add coordinating tools, and you can write an operating system. In the past, we would do little things for love, but big things, big things required money. Now we can do big things for love.

This was the concluding thought from a recent talk by Clay Shirky:

I hope one of the big things we can do for love, is to make personal genomes useful. Happy Valentine’s Day.

February 14, 2008 | Filed Under Zeitgeist 

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  1. 2gether08 | 2gether - big things for love on June 30th, 2008 12:37 pm

    […] our ability to connect, collaborate, share and converse to do in Clay’s lovely phrase ‘big things for love’ . 2gether feels a bit like that. In just over 8 weeks we have gone from nothing to a programme of […]

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    […] Best let me share some of Steve’s own words on what 2gether08 will bring to London over the next two days in Shoreditch’s Rochelle School (2-3 July)“It is commonplace to go on about the affordances of new technologies and how in the right hands they can allow us to overcome economic impediments that curtailed our ability to connect, collaborate, share and converse to do in Clay’s lovely phrase ‘big things for love’ . […]

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