Cognitive Surplus
  • Published: 29 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141041605
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

Cognitive Surplus

Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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30 Aug 2010
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29 Jul 2011
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Digital guru, master explainer of all things and the voice of the future' The Times

In the past, we filled our free time with the tools at our disposal. Television became a kind of universal part-time job, and sitcoms and soap operas sponged up our cognitive surplus: the collective surfeit of time, intellect and energy at our disposal.

Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. New tools don't just let us consume, but to create and to share. Clay Shirky's groundbreaking book reveals what is now happening with this previously untapped talent and goodwill. From lolcats to tools for tracking voter fraud and ethnic violence, he shows how we're using our cognitive surplus for the better, and what it means for the future.
  • Published: 29 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141041605
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Cognitive Surplus

Lucid and assured ... the most amazing fact about Shirky's incisive manual for building a better world is this: it's just possible that everything he promises may be true

Guardian

Shirky is the best chronicler we have of the unfolding cultural revolution brought on by the web

New Statesman