Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age - Hardcover

Shirky, Clay

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ISBN 10: 1846142172 ISBN 13: 9781846142178

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2010

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Shirky is an original thinker, a compelling stylist ... a sage with a remarkable record of accuracy. Cognitive Surplus is a manifesto for what's next - or what ought to be (Independent)

Lucid and assured ... the most amazing fact about Shirky's incisive manual for building a better world is this: it's just possible that everything he promises may be true (Guardian)

Shirky is the best chronicler we have of the unfolding cultural revolution brought on by the web (New Statesman)

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For decades, technology encouraged us to squander our time and as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky examines the changes we will all enjoy as our untapped resources of talent and good will are put to use at last.

Since the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time - a "cognitive surplus." Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus - rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior - actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up to and through the early 20th Century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus - aided by new technologies - will have on 21st Century society, and how we can best exploit those effects, and how the choices we make are not only economically motivated but driven by the desire for autonomy, competence, and community.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846142172
• ISBN 13: 9781846142178
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256