I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.
He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it.
via Sullivan
Incredible.
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Behold how we are wasting our lives away, thanks to the tv. Imagine that time and brain power employed to something...
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TV vs Wikipedia hours spent visualized
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gawkpicker said:
30% TV shows? If you click the ‘random article’ button a few times, you get mostly place names and people.
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Someone send Shirky a copy of Labyrinths so he will stop writing obvious shit like this.
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I would estimate — based on my impressions from clicking around on Wikipedia — that roughly 30% of its entries are...
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