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:

œ
1. looks more like a jellyfish from the side spongebob:i like to jellyfish! ΠSee rats, live, inside, of, us 2. Its a space ship!!! Can..
Read more
Ikon
1. How to completely fuck up a good thing. I think we'll outsource to IBM, and then go hang ourselves for being such stupid fucking r..
Read more
Riis
1. used to replace cool, awesome, tubular etc. that icecream cone is riis! scope dat shorties azz, it riis..
Read more

Best StartPage for your browser.

All you need for a faster workflow in one place.



Get it for Free