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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
- The first advantage is an increase of experimentation in form.
from Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky
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- We’re lousy at predicting what we will do with new communications tools before we try them.
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- The sharing, in fact, is what makes the making fun.
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- Even though the spread of movable type created a massive downshift in average quality, that same invention made it possible to have novels, newspapers, and scientific journals.
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- The cognitive surplus, newly forged from previously disconnected islands of time and talent, is just raw material. To get any value out of it, we have to make it mean or do things.
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- But what if, all this time, providing professional content isn’t the only job we’ve been hiring media to do?
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- All these things used to be separated into public media (like visual or print communications made by a small group of professionals) and personal media (like letters and phone calls made by ordinary citizens). Now those two modes have fused.
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- The easier it is for the average person to publish, the more average what gets published becomes.
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- We can now turn massive aggregations of small contributions into things of lasting value. This fact, key to our current era, has been a persistent surprise. At every turn, skeptical observers have attacked the idea that pooling our cognitive surplus could work to create anything worthwhile.
from Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky
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