Clay Shirky is the Vice Provost of Educational Technologies at New York University and an associate professor at the New York University Tisch school of arts. He is a prominent thinker on the social and economic effects of the Internet and the Web. Clay has authored a number of books, including Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus. Our conversation with Clay gravitates around models of value generation in the context of digital technologies and the impact of ai on education. We talk about the social and economic impact of digital technologies, the nature of the internet, and why distributed version control is a new and important form of arguing. We also touch on how the university model of education might co-evolve with the growth of digital technology. About and From Clay Shirky: Clay Shirky Clay Shirky: Wikipedia Clay Shirky (@cshirky): Twitter Clay Shirky: TED Speaker    Clay Shirky: Books Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration