Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators Paperback - 2011
by Shirky, Clay
- Used
The author of the breakout hit, "Here Comes Everybody" reveals how new technology is changing people for the better, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform the world.
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Details
- Title Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
- Author Shirky, Clay
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2011-05-31
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # C06L-00399
- ISBN 9780143119586 / 0143119583
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 7.93 x 5.34 x 0.55 in (20.14 x 13.56 x 1.40 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Social Media Personalities
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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Summary
In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first time, people are embracing new media that allow them to pool their efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind-expanding reference tools like Wikipedia to life-saving Web sites like Ushahidi.com, which allows Kenyans to report acts of violence in real time. Cognitive Surplus explores what's possible when people unite to use their intellect, energy, and time for the greater good.
