Comments on: Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus

By: tylerb4

tylerb4 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:48:10 +0000

His knowledge on the past, how our culture has been spending our time is staggering. I watched a TED talk on how video gamers are going to change the world and there are some similar stats there. It then goes into a video game online funded by the world bank that has people tackling real world problems, a very interesting concept. Check it http://www.urgentevoke.com/ It's only starting up agin in May I believe

By: bevjohnsonau

bevjohnsonau — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:58:51 +0000

I think this is a particularly American point of view. Australians seem to put value on spending time doing unimportant not urgent things…. which are often really important. I think this has lots in common with the Australian Aboriginal cultures which value being in the now. During one of my doing/outcome/achievement…. focused periods one of my kids said to me "Forget about quality time. I want quantity time. Just knowing that you are in the lounge watching TV is what I want."

By: paulhassing

paulhassing — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:08:17 +0000

Best thing I've seen for yonks. It takes a lot to keep me from my porrige on a cool autumn morning, but this had the goods. Thanks to Clay for the ideas, Scott for the window and Seth for the heads up. Great stuff! P. :)