Cognitive Surplus
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4.3 • 37 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better.
In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first time, people are embracing new media that allow them to pool their efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind-expanding reference tools like Wikipedia to life-saving Web sites like Ushahidi.com, which allows Kenyans to report acts of violence in real time. Cognitive Surplus explores what's possible when people unite to use their intellect, energy, and time for the greater good.
Customer Reviews
Cognitive Surplus
The book provides a framework to ponder how social networking, social media is a reaction to opportunity rather than a forced change. The dropping of the constraints on production. Everyone is both a producer and consumer plus everyone can find tribes or people with similar interests. To group together with little concern for the costs historically associated with scale.
The most interesting for me, shaped by my experiences, is chapter 6 where it becomes clear why communities form, why they wobble at times and why they will likely dissolve. The idea that you want to capture the contributions and then share them over time even when the people who created the foundation have moved on makes me wonder about the long tail impact.
The book will make you think. Where you go with it is up to you and largely shaped by where you have been.
Author Page
How about showing the Author Page in the Free Sample - for that matter, show some choice visual enticements... !
Great book!
Worth every penny!