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Clay Shirky & The Cognitive Surplus
Sep. 3rd, 2008 05:40 amYes, I know it sounds like a band, but it ain't.
Below is an embedded video of Shirky giving this (imho) important talk. For those video averse, here's an approximate transcript.
"I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she asked me, "What are you seeing out there that's interesting?"
I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...
So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
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BONUS: Shirky at TED, talking about "Institutions vs. collaboration."
Below is an embedded video of Shirky giving this (imho) important talk. For those video averse, here's an approximate transcript.
"I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she asked me, "What are you seeing out there that's interesting?"
I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...
So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
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BONUS: Shirky at TED, talking about "Institutions vs. collaboration."
