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cognitive surplus
“cognitive surplus” is a great expression; I came across it again today while looking at a site with the sub title of “solve puzzles for science”. Trying to harness some of that excess brain power for good.
Back to the idea, or the talk, about cognitive surplus … it is an interesting and thought provoking talk that places blame for the industrial revolution on gin (actually he argues that it is a critial technology that help lead to the industrial revolution) and saying that the social lubricant leading to the changes that we are seeing now is the sitcom. He continues the argument to say that if we could only harness a fraction of the cognitive surplus that is wasted while watching television it would be amazing and scary to think of the things that might get done.
Anyway, here is a link to the talk
