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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Penguin |
| More info: | www.linuxland.nl ... | Author(s): | Clay Shirky |
| Pages: | 242 | Year of publication: | 2010 |
In Cognitive Surplus internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.Since Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we've had een surfeit of intellect, energy, and time - what Shirky calls a 'cognitive surplus'. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion's share of it.Shirky charts the vast » Read more... |  |
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In Cognitive Surplus internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.Since Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we've had een surfeit of intellect, energy, and time - what Shirky calls a 'cognitive surplus'. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion's share of it.Shirky charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus - aided by new technologies - will have on twenty-first-century society and how we can best exploit those effects.Shirky also assesss the transformative impact of online culture, which is by definition more transparent than traditional management structures.