Psy201 Week 1 Reaction Paper

1) Technology mainly that how we communicate has dramatically changed the way people and information is gathered for social or political purposes. Clay Shirky talks about in his Ted talk about how institutions use professionals to advance their cause to the greatest possible. They use the 20/80 rule meaning that 80% of the work is done by 20% individuals in the organization. It is not cost effective for a company or institution to try to meet the demands of everyone but must fixate on a smaller group of individuals that are more likely to contribute to the institutions success or profitability.

2) Since technology has increased the ability for communications institutions such as Flickr Wikipedia and other open software based groups can

It is not profitable for an institution to employ a single contributor. as institutions move away from a professional based class the contributions of only a single contributor become more important. Contributions made by that single contributor are donations to that the institution, which did not have to initialize or fund them. So in general the more public based in institution is the more important it is to have even single contributors because they can add the most potential

He cites that “never before in human history as a technology changed as much for a society and that of the steam engine. “ This is because for the first time we truly developed technology greater then the strength of humans. This has never been more profusely seen modern-day Computer industrialized age. We rely so much on computers and mechanical technology around us that he cites “companies and corporations are increasing their technology budget but not their workforce budgets.” Ultimately we are moving towards a society in which we depend more and more on the machines around us, and that intern with technologies such as self driving vehicles and assembly-line drones, will have a much greater impact in the