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The Cognitive Surplus

At this year’s Web 2.0 Expo, Clay Shirky gave an entertaining talk on how the ‘Cognitive Surplus’, or the collective spare brain power of everyone, is shifting from passive to more active engagement. …We watched Gilligan’s Island. We watch Malcolm in the Middle. We watch Desperate Housewives. Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive [...]