Comments on: Cognitive Surplus visualized

By: Pugz

Pugz — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:35:11 +0000

This equates to roughly 300,000 life times spent watching TV per year in the US. Or 821 life times a day.

By: Annabel

Annabel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:07:48 +0000

How many of those people watching the TV own computers? Did I miss someone making that point already?

By: Chuck Hamilton

Chuck Hamilton — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:48:15 +0000

David,
Thanks for the visit and lunch chat. Back in Canada now and thinking more about how to use this. Much of our work of late is focused on how to better understand and motivate connection among disparate teams and individuals. Clearly there is much untapped resource and innovation buried in what Shirky describes as ‘Cognitive Surplus’. There is gold here, we need only connect it. Thanks for keeping it simple.

By: Zsuzs

Zsuzs — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:21:29 +0000

Consider: 2 billion men spend daily with shaving 20 000 hours!

By: translation services

translation services — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:30:14 +0000

I think this show invites the assumption that the updating of the Wikipedia is the only smart thing we do as human beings. This is simply not true, of course, and although it is impossible, it would be interesting to see hours of entertainment in front of school hours

By: Rinske W.

Rinske W. — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:10:27 +0000

I love the idea behind this visualization and the idea of Cognitive Surplus. This statistic does not have to imply anything about the value of time spent watching tv vs. creating Wikipedia, but rather is a visualization of the free time we have. Which we can do anything with, whether it be watch tv or not. The interesting thing is that the options for spending that time are now increasing and while tv still will be watch, many of us knowing these options will take some time to contribute to the field of usable knowledge. It is the potential envisaged above which excites me.

By: Beth JERVIS

Beth JERVIS — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:26:12 +0000

WOAH! There is a lot of work to do… but at least there is a visible dint :)

By: e a hemiola

e a hemiola — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:38:21 +0000

Yikes. This is causing me to seriously rethink. Had all kinds of plans. I even made lists. But look how out of proportion this is! Back to the TV. Safety in numbers.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:03:02 +0000

and there’s an incredible wealth of untapped talen from retired lawyers, academics etc.

By: A.S.

A.S. — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:49:17 +0000

I was thinking about that comment too!! Were you at the NY Tech Meet up in July when he spoke?