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Cognitive Surplus

How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

Clay Shirky

Explore how new digital technology is unleashing a wave of creative production that is transforming our world. Discover how people are using new media to pool their efforts at low cost, creating mind-expanding reference tools like Wikipedia and life-saving Web sites like Ushahidi.com. Cognitive Surplus shows what's possible when people unite to use their intellect, energy, and time for the greater good.
Publish Date
2010-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
2010-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.82
ISBN
9780143119586
Recommendations
4
Recommendations
2010-08-25T00:59:59.000Z
Really good book if you want to understand social media & people as an app: Cognitive Surplus      source
2020-07-16T19:30:30.000Z
@kylebrussell cc @cshirky I love that book!      source
Clay’s new book, Cognitive Surplus, is also likely to go down as a classic.      source