The fusing of means, motive and opportunity creates our cognitive surplus out of the raw material of accumulated free time. The real change comes from our awareness that this surplus creates unprecedent opportunities, or rather that it creates an unprecedent opportunity for us to create those opportunities for each other. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive surplus’
If we want to create new forms of civic value, we need to improve the ability of small groups to try radical things… It’s from groups trying new things that the most profound uses of social media have hitherto come and will come in the future. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive surplus’
This is the paradox of the revolution. The bigger the opportunity offered by new tools, the less completely anyone can extrapolate the future from the previous shape of society. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive surplus’
The downside of attending to the emotional life of a group is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive surplus’
The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media (like the phone) has now expanded to include a third option: two-way media that operates on a scale from private to public. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive surplus’
Human motivations change little over the years, but opportunity can change a little or a lot, depending on the social environment. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive surplus’
Since the 1950’s, any country with rising GDP has invariably seen a reordering of human affairs; in the whole of the developed world, the three most common activities are now work, sleep, and watching TV. All this is despite considerable evidence that watching that much television is an actual source of unhappines. Clay Shirky ‘Cognitive…
La decisión de actuar es intuitiva. El desafío consiste en pasar de tener la esperanza de haber elegido lo correcto a la confianza de que se trata de la opción adecuada. David Allen ‘Organízate con eficacia’
Yo pensaba que la magia de la era de la información consistía en que nos había permitido saber más pero luego me di cuenta de que la magia de la era de la información es que nos permite saber menos. Nos proporciona servidores cognitivos externos…Podemos cargar estos servidores y liberarnos nosotros. David Brooks Citado por…
El conocimiento es de dos tipos. O conocemos una materia por nosotros mismos o sabemos dónde encontrar información sobre ella. Nicholas Carr ‘Superficiales’