Homage to Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus
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I’m about half way through Clay Shirky’s new book, ‘Cognitive Surplus’ and I have noticed his writing wrapped in story inspires me to sketch it’s themes. The one I’ve included for this post, illustrates the example Shirky uses to clarify the idea that scarcity (rather than abundance), is much easier to understand. If a product or service becomes rare, then we simply charge more for it. Done. A newly abundant thing means we change how we use it; think smashing open your radio, tinkering with the wiring, hackeroo style. Clay paints the perfect example, parents/grandparents ‘announcing’ the long distance ...