Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The book I’m reading today is Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. I do like Clay Shirky: he looks at things from an unusual perspective, and explores implications in unexpected directions, but makes it so clear that you keep nodding, "Of course, of course." You get that feeling of having somehow already known what you’re only now reading—because, I think, the elements were all present and recognized, but they needed still to be put into a narrative: the dots must still be connected. Because we’re familiar with the elements, we get the idea that we were also familiar with the connection, but quite often that’s not the case.
