ISBN: 1400116813

For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, technology has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus, In… Mehr…

For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, technology has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus, Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion's share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving, such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower business,business and investing,business and management,communication and media studies,computers,computers and technology,creativity,culture,economics,engineering Self-Help, Tantor Audio<

2010, ISBN: 1400116813

[EAN: 9781400116812], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Tantor Audio], AUDIO CD, 6 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking. We will polish the AUDIO CDs for smo… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781400116812], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Tantor Audio], AUDIO CD, 6 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking. We will polish the AUDIO CDs for smooth listening. You will receive a reliable set. Enjoy this presentable AUDIO CD performance.<

ISBN: 1400116813

[EAN: 9781400116812], usado, bom estado, Former library audio book. Will have library markings and stickers and possibly no inserts. Plays perfectly.

2010, ISBN: 9781400116812

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ISBN: 9781400116812

Tantor Audio. Audio CD. LIKE NEW. Like new, very light shelf wear., Tantor Audio