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Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

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http://www.ted.com Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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  • I agree with the main point: the internet allows us to contribute content, not just consume, and is largely built on freely contributed content.

    The other good point is that we should celebrate and support projects with ‘civic value’. For example, wikipedia, free and open source software, artists and musicians who freely distribute their works, and so forth.

    The point of mentioning the daycare experiment is if we think of these things from an economic standpoint we will not see their value.

  • @WonderWomanFan4life welcome to technological unemployment! welcome it!

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  • The daycare center example really shows how valuable culture is. Once you break it...you can't put it back together again. I feel so sorry for the US

  • The start made me think entirely of Ubuntu...and then Obama. Seriously, I've seen things go horribly wrong after someone at the front of a room started with 2007 and Kenya. Awesome coverage of why the democratic media will surpass it's controlled predecessor.

  • The end made me think entirely of GNU/Linux and the free software movement.

  • HHmm.. Good!!. Thanks for Shared.

  • @andreeaweed Except that it doesn't have information and stuff about everything.

  • internet is like a large country where you can find all kind of information and stuff about anything

  • very informative talk

  • I'll bookmark your channel…

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