Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
A really interesting and well-written account by Clay Shirky about the effects of gin, television and now social technologies on the world in terms of a supposed "cognitive surplus". This is an edited speech given in support his new book "Here Comes Everybody" (c/o MP).
- Web Address: http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
- Short Name: yiscichiship
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Short Link: http://ma.gnolia.com/yiscichiship
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Tags: opinion, speech, television, cognitive surplus
- Saved to Online social space by Andrew Long on May 01, 2008.
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"Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat." |
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Sarah | Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody |
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June 30, 2008 |
Transcript of Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 on some of the ideas in his book <i>Here Comes Everybody</i>. Fascinating ideas about "cognitive surplus" and how society as a whole spends its time and brain power. Technology and m... |
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Brynn | Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody |
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May 27, 2008 |
This is a short transcript of Clay Shirky's speech given at the Web 2.0 expo (2008). |
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gparmer | Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody |
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May 20, 2008 |
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April 28, 2008 |
If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole seri... |
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April 27, 2008 |
Clay Shirky's take on the excess time represented by the death of the sitcom and the rise of participatory culture |
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