What I have thought about Clay Shirky Cognitive Surplus

  Accessing to the internet has spread we have become connected to each other in ways. We can now produce, learn, connect, share, and shop online. This connection has freed us from simply consuming contents to being able to participate and contribute to it in larger groups. Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus is about how and why we can put to better use our collected free time by connecting and participating in new ways for the public goods.

 

 I want to mention that we are becoming one and another’s infrastructure. As a group becomes larger, things which were previously unlike can become likely. For example, in city it’s possible that at any time, someone will want to buy a slice of pizza. As a result, pizza companies can afford to make pizzas in advance and sell them by the slice, and is confident that there will be demand for them. On the other hand, in a rural area the demand for pizza slices is very low. This things happen when individual needs which can only shows as a crowd grows and in larger crowds it’s more likely that someone somewhere in the group will be able to meet those needs. The internet of course ables us to form much larger and diverse crowds never before. So we can rely on a wider group of people. Both online and offline to meet our various needs.

 

 So, I've thought about we are becoming each others infrastructure. These days, we can see and hear real time updates from those who are on the ground, living it minute by minute. With our mobile phones and computers we can share with millions of people what’s going on around them as it happens.