Cognitive Surplus

Great talk given by one of my favourites, Clay Shirky, at the 2.0 Expo. It's a must see, put a few minutes aside to watch it.

One of the key points in this talk of participatory media is that we are still very much at the beginning of figuring out what to do with our ability to collaborate on a mass scale. We're far from figuring out the rules, which is critical to remember. "The physics of participation is much more like the physics of the weather than it is the physics of gravity".

How to deal, then, with a chaotic ecosystem? Experiment, iterate, learn, and try again. Sounds like a good suggestion to me.

Comments

[Stan Lee]

Great stuff! Thanx for sharing.

[henry chilcott]

Really interesting.

Have a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2131372116319267355&hl=en

[David Jones]

Awesome clip.