Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
Clay Shirky looks at “cognitive surplus” — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we’re busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we’re building a better, more cooperative world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html
Clay Shirky believes that new technologies enabling loose collaboration — and taking advantage of “spare” brainpower — will change the way society works. He talks a lot about the difference between doing anything and doing nothing. Social science is looking at how much value is derived from our intrinsic motivations to create and share, according to Shirky.
Fascinating stuff as always from TED.com.
Clay Shirky’s work focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting. In his writings and speeches he has argued that “a group is its own worst enemy.” His clients have included Nokia, the Library of Congress and the BBC.
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