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On Cognitive Surplus: Cut Down TV Consumption, Save The World

In an interview about his new book (Here Comes Everybody), Clay Shirky is talking about group editing on Wikipedia when a television producer asks him, “Where do people find the time?” Shirky’s response:

“Nobody who works in TV gets to ask that question.”

If we could just cut down a fraction of our TV watching, we could free up trillions of human hours to create new and interesting things, or tackle the world’s problems. But first I have to find out which chef got kicked off of Hell’s Kitchen…

Posted via web from Jason Theodor’s Creative Method and Systems Channel