Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Jun 29, 2010
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.
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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
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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.
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The end made me think entirely of GNU/Linux and the free software movement.
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HHmm.. Good!!. Thanks for Shared.
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@andreeaweed Except that it doesn't have information and stuff about everything.
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internet is like a large country where you can find all kind of information and stuff about anything
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very informative talk
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I'll bookmark your channel…
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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.
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