Blog entry # 9 - Cognitive Surplus
There is a really interesting video here. http://www.calacanis.com/2008/04/30/clay-shirky-cognitive-surplus-talk-at-web-2-0/
It is a lecture by Clay Shirky about how web 2.0 is changing our lives. He discusses that at the advent of television, people began wasting hours of their lives everyday. It was not until web 2.0 started that we as a society have begun to reclaim our lives…we started using our cognitive surplus. He cites Wikipedia as an example. People are going out of their way to compile information for the use of others. It is really incredible. With television, we are just consumers and nothing more. However, with the internet we have control and input. Clay Shirky believes this is a paradigm shift of our generation, and he makes some really interesting points.
