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Cognitive Surplus
''Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age'' is a 2010 non-fiction book by Clay Shirky. The book is an indirect sequel to Shirky's ''Here Comes Everybody'', which covered the impact of social media.
==Summary==
Shirky argues that since the 1940s, people are learning how to use free time more constructively for creative acts rather than consumptive ones, particularly with the advent of online tools that allow new forms of collaboration.〔 The author catalogs the means and motives behind these new forms of cultural production and provides key examples.
While Shirky acknowledges that the activities that we use our cognitive surplus for may be frivolous (such as creating LOLcats), the trend as a whole is leading to valuable and influential new forms of human expression. He also asserts that even the most inane forms of creation and sharing are preferable to the hundreds of billions of hours spent consuming television shows in countries such as the United States.〔 He sees compulsive television viewing as the modern equivalent of the Gin Craze, presenting both as maladaptive and self-anesthetizing responses to epochal social disruptions. The mass bingeing, stoked by nightmarish urbanization during the Industrial Revolution, ended when, according to Shirky, English society evolved "new urban realities created by London's incredible social density" changing London into one of the first modern cities.
Shirky notes that Wikipedia represents the investment of approximately 100 million hours (up to 2009), compared to 200 billion hours people spend watching TV every year.〔''Cognitive Surplus'', p. 49〕
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