Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

Cognitive Surplus

How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

2010 • 256 pages

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This book is not aging well. Shirky takes a starry-eyed optimistic view of the “cognitive surplus.” He fails to even try to anticipate the downsides, such as online hate groups or /r/_the_donald.

January 15, 2017