Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, technology has finally caught up with human potential, and the results of this 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.
This “cognitive surplus” returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century, and with this will come an era of greater innovation, transparency and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.
Speaker Details
Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He is the author of many books including Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.
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- Clay Shirky
- Affiliation:
- Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU
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