Cognitive Surplus: Creativity And Generosity In A Connected Age (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
One Main point:Because of our wealth, we have more free time that we can use our brains for. Because of this and the power of scale we are able to do some cool things. Things such as Wikipedia and YouTube and open sourse can benefit from huge numbers of people now have large amount of free time. They are able to make some really cool things that could not have been made before. We spend some of this new free time watching TV and other less productive tasks but we are also making huge amounts of content. How this book impact how I see the world.Harnessing these things can do a great job of increasing our standard of living. If even a small number of people have more time and use that time to work together we can use some of that brain power for things we never could have done before. This, plus the fact that we are so connected, and incentivized to some degree to use our free time to make useful content (think of the good feeling when people like or share a photo, video article you created) will continue to have some very positive impacts and let us create new products and services not available in the past. I consider Cognitive Surplus a sequel to Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" [which I read last year]. Published in 2010, Shirky's narrative is not only relevant today, but accurate in his predictions of how society behaves today given our abundance of time, 24/7 connectivity and technological tools that allows [almost] everyone to be a publisher, author, performer and even inventor.Cognitive surplus is the time, energy, and willingness individuals contribute to collective causes that the world wide web affords us. Wikipedia, patientslikeme.com, and pickuppals.com are examples of causes Shirky discusses; groups of coming together to create services that provide knowledge, support and and even infrastructure by means of the internet. Described as the 'connective tissue' that binds people together that can enhance and improve lives.An excellent book for anyone involved or interested in education, technology, public service or business.
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For me, it took time to digest the content. So, became a slow reader!.
—Mhelma
Started well - "television drug of the nation" but got bored - sorry
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