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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
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- 9781594202537
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- 884798824969
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594202532
ISBN-13
9781594202537
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79877570
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Cognitive Surplus : Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Media Studies, Social Aspects, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Management, Telecommunications
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-053882
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
303.48/33
Synopsis
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. 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 we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we've had a 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-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time. Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also 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 envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization. The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg's tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before. Watch a Video
LC Classification Number
HM851.S5464 2010
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