Cognitive Surplus

What is Cognitive Surplus?

1.

A word coined by former Silicon Alley Reporter columnist Clay Shirky to describe the free time that people have on their hands to engage in collaborative activities, specially as applies to web 2.0.

Wikipedia is an example of wide-scale deployment of cognitive surplus.

"You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus that you've been masking for 50 years".

See web, clay, surplus
32

Random Words:

Declarate
1. A combination of the words declare and decorate. Go into all the nations and declarate. See declarate, declare, decorate, mistake..
Read more
E-pen0r
1. Online ego measured by the size of one's own penis. Neaub3 just gawt fuxing sc0n3d, his e-pen0r must be brox0rd now. lawl, rifk. ..
Read more
Bulldust
1. A euphemism, or replacement word, for those who are too pussyto use the actual swearword which is bullshit. The word has now evolved to ..
Read more

Best StartPage for your browser.

All you need for a faster workflow in one place.



Get it for Free