Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
American writer, consultant and commentator on the World Wide Web, Clay Shirky’s new book is out today. It’s called Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and it makes an interesting analysis of what the majority of the world does with its free-time. Our younger generation is now watching less television for the first time in history; instead they are turning to the internet and it’s changing the social landscape of the modern world. Networks and collaborations now exist where they were previously impossible. Cognitive Surplus continues on where Shirky’s previous bestseller, Here Comes Everybody left off as he discusses the potential scale and impact that this revolution of connectivity may well have on our future lives.
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8 August, 2010 at 11:51 am |
I’ve been a fan of Clay Shirky’s work for quite some time. He is realistic in his assessment of collaborations strengths and weaknesses. His chronicle of an online study group at Ryerson University is a perfect example of the ramifications of widespread interconnectivity that society will be wrestling with into the future.