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

克莱·舍基说，美国人一年花在看电视上的时间大约2000亿个小时，而这几乎是2000个维基百科项目一年所需要的时间。如果我们将每个人的自由时间看成一个集合体，一种认知盈余，那么，这种盈余会有多大？我们已经忘记了我们的自由时间始终属于我们自己，我们可以凭自己的意愿来消...

跳过前面的6章废话，直接看第七章吧。 1-6章都在讲述世界的规律、历史、社会现象。而第7章讲的是：在认知盈余时代如何创业。 无论是IT老鸟，还是在互联网行业刚刚起步的初生牛犊。读一读作者所分享的经验心得应该都挺有收获的！  

用户评价

我最喜欢这种披着理论外衣但是有很强实践意义的东西了——既有“解构世界”的高端感，又有似乎常能被举一反三的实践性。蛮明显是一些结构功能主义的痕迹，也从文化社会学角度讨论了下被机构化的社交网络。虽然并不是tip-book，也还是蛮适合做MKT等行业稍瞄两眼的。

Society is shaped as much by inconvenience as by capability.

为什么人们有那么多时间上网做各种各样的事情？ 原因无非三种：手段（便捷）、动机（分享，互惠互利，自我的内在满足和实现）和机会（有更多机会去实现人的伦理。 互联网时代不是专业/业余的二分法时代，而是认可普通人的创造是有价值的，本身就是自我实现的过程，互联网前所未有地帮助人们实现这种价值。个人满足与整全并非假象，但是网络大众的集体创造被无偿占有也是事实。文化生产背后的技术与利益结构不应被人遗忘，无论该种利益属于何种资本主义。

Kindle版都不便宜，但又懒得等软皮装了。后面那一堆资料，还真是有电子版看着方便 ：）

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！