Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
“And it’s only now, as we’re waking up from that collective bender, that we’re starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We’re seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging than just having a TV in everybody’s basement.”
I highly recommend reading this commentary by Clay Shirky. It is about the transformation from free time spent in front of the television to using it online sharing and creating.
A progressive from the east living in the desert - 