Fin—Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus

“Study after study in the 1990s asked potential users what they would do with the internet if they got access to it, and the commonest answers always clustered around ‘I’ll use it to find information,’ ‘I’ll use it to help me with my schoolwork,’ and so on. Whenever a poll asked people already online what [...]

We are the product of “frozen sharing” —Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus

“The ‘frozen sharing’ creates great potential value. Enormous databases of images, text, videos and so on include many items that have never been looked at or read, but it costs little to keep those things available, and they may be useful to one person, years in the future. That tiny bit of value may seem [...]

Spreading knowledge clearly is the key to the future—Shirkey Ch. 5

“The spread of recipe-like clarity can accelerate the sharing of knowledge among groups working on the same problem, but it can also make it easier for others to benefit from the knowledge so produced, because clear expression of an idea can travel from person to person and group to group more easily than the same [...]

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