Cognitive Surplus

克莱·舍基，被誉为“互联网革命最伟大的思考者”、“新文化最敏锐的观察者”，从事有关互联网的社会和经济影响的写作、教学与咨询，特别关注社会网络和技术网络的交叉地带。目前在纽约大学的互动电信项目中任教，其咨询客户包括诺基亚、宝洁、BBC、美国海军和乐高公司等。多年来，在《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《哈佛商业评论》、《连线》和《IEEE计算机》等报刊上发表文章，广受读者追捧，并经常在技术会议上充当主题演讲者。

出版者:Penguin Press

作者:Clay Shirky

页数:242

出版时间:2010-06-10

价格:GBP 16.60

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594202537

图书标签:互联网社会学新媒体SNS心理学ClayShirky网络媒体英文

The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.

For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.

Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion's share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.

Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.

The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg's tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.

读后感

《认知盈余》应该归类进社会化知识管理，和个人品牌、时间管理也都沾点边。相对于国外，目前国内拥有自由时间并且能够形成力量的人，还不普遍，但这是大势所趋，因为科技和时代裹挟我们前进。拥有自由时间而想要改进，或者还在无意义消耗（比如天天把日常生活刷进微博），都应...  

舍基的角度是从传统的组织或者传统组织里面的人该如何应对新的变化。 新技术带来的个人行为习惯的改变。 工业化产生了大量财富，以至于人只需要在一天中的一小部分时间工作，就能够获得满足生存生活的收入，每个人都有了越来越多的自由时间，在互联网应用之前，这些时间大部分...  

How much of your time is spent consuming things other people made (TV, music, video games, websites) versus making your own? Only one of those adds to your value as a human being. ——David Wong 你有多少时间是在消费别人创造的东西：电视，音乐，电玩，网站，.....  

什么是认知盈余？ 因为8小时工作制，人们每天会有8小时的自由支配时间。人类有消费（接受信息）、分享（传播信息）、创造（提供新信息）的需求。在以前人们只在电视机前进行消费，而如今，大量受过高等教育程度的人们可以通过互联网进行分享和创造。如此多的盈余时间如果能够被...  

《认知盈余》应该归类进社会化知识管理，和个人品牌、时间管理也都沾点边。相对于国外，目前国内拥有自由时间并且能够形成力量的人，还不普遍，但这是大势所趋，因为科技和时代裹挟我们前进。拥有自由时间而想要改进，或者还在无意义消耗（比如天天把日常生活刷进微博），都应...  

用户评价

so filled with constructive insights it is amazing.

so filled with constructive insights it is amazing.

这本书让我想起写“排泄性用户”那个做论坛的人。忘记名字了。挺实在的概念，不过就是不深。做任何新东西就是这样吧，摸着石头过河。

口水书，适合快读。

每个人的一点cognitive surplus如果aggregate起来就可以成就伟业(Wikipedia,Linux)。尤其在中国，如果每个人把花在路上发呆，上班偷闲，家中悠哉的一些时间做些于己于人有益的事，潜力无穷啊！