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Cognitive Surplus
By Clay Shirky
Love it or hate it the internet dominates both how we work and our personal lives. Everything from finding a partner, a financial adviser or information on a mortgage to playing computer games with friends can now be done in a virtual world.
The likes of Wikipedia, Facebook, Linkedin and MoneySavingExpert are all examples of people coming together and working for a common goal, whether that's sticking lame captions on pictures of cats or updating information.
This is the main subject area of Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky - how the internet is being used to change our lives for the better and why we behave in the way that we do.
Shirky argues that we are leading more active lives through the internet now that television has lost its stranglehold over our lives.
The time we...