I have found the cognitive surplus, and it hates pigs. " Internet nous rend généreux parce qu'il réduit les coûts du partage " - archives. L'auteur, consultant et professeur Clay Shirky. Photo : James Duncan Davidson L'auteur, consultant et professeur qui a le don de la formule choc s'intéresse à l'impact social d'Internet sur les entreprises et sur la société. Les institutions vont tout tenter pour préserver le problème dont elles sont la solution. Cette affirmation de l'Américain Clay Shirky est connue sous l'appellation du " principe de Shirky " (Shirky Principle).
Il en fait son pain et son beurre depuis 1996, année où il a commencé à se pencher sur l'impact social d'Internet. Depuis, il a publié plusieurs livres dont les plus célèbres sont Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations et Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. On peut aussi le lire régulièrement dans les pages du New York Times, de la Harvard Business Review et de Wired. Diane Bérard - On vous a taxé de techno-idéaliste, est-ce le cas ? D.B.- Que se passe-t-il avec les promesses non tenues d'Internet ? Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008: Clay Shirky - Web2Expo - blip.tv. Clay Shirky (cshirky) Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky | Book review | Books | The Observer. Every single year for the second half of the 20th century, the amount of television watched by humanity increased.
Collectively, we now watch more than one trillion hours of television every year – something not entirely unlike, as Clay Shirky sees it, tipping the free time of the world's educated citizenry (their "cognitive surplus") down an intellectual plughole. It's not that television is evil, or even bad. It's just that, as a medium, it's incredibly good at soaking up leisure and producing very few tangible results.
It tells stories, it makes people feel less alone, it passes the time. It is, Shirky ventures, a little like gin in 1720s London, helping people cope with modernity by gently blurring the edges of their reality. The point of departure for this, Shirky's second book, is an unprecedented fact. Not that every collaborative project could be a Wikipedia, of course. The key to the radical nature of the social change all this implies is scale. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (9781594202537): Clay Shirky. Blog - Clay Shirky. Fifteen years ago, a research group called The Fraunhofer Institute announced a new digital format for compressing movie files. This wasn’t a terribly momentous invention, but it did have one interesting side effect: Fraunhofer also had to figure out how to compress the soundtrack.
The result was the Motion Picture Experts Group Format 1, Audio Layer III , a format you know and love, though only by its acronym, MP3. The recording industry concluded this new audio format would be no threat, because quality mattered most. Who would listen to an MP3 when they could buy a better-sounding CD at the record store? Then Napster launched, and quickly became the fastest-growing piece of software in history. The industry sued Napster and won, and it collapsed even more suddenly than it had arisen. If Napster had only been about free access, control of legal distribution of music would then have returned the record labels. How did the recording industry win the battle but lose the war?
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