Of Television-Induced Stupor and the Social Revolution
I found a nifty talk by Clay Shirky about how TV is bad and should die a painful death. Okay, not really, he’s just saying we’ll move on to media that encourages interaction, like Wikipedia.
Check it out over at ClusterFlock.
I especially like where he breaks down the quantity of wasted man-hours of thought spent watching TV.
I wonder how we could more efficiently utilize this vast reserve of distributed brain power. I’m sure Google will come up with something for it.
Tags: shirky, social computing
August 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Unfortunately, I think some people will continue to be stuck in their non-productive state, yet one day they will die off and seem primitive. Very interesting. Perhaps there’s a billion dollar idea here to harness this reserve to make it more usable and useful…