Cognitive Surplus, Cognitive Deficits

🎶 you lost that lovin' (commons-based peer production) feeling 🎶

Clay Shirky - “Technology & Human Potential” (2010)

One element of Here Comes Everybody that I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about is the fate of the nonfinancial, nonmarket motivations that Shirky highlights as the underlying driver of successful open source projects like Wikipedia. As he writes in Chapter 5:

The genius of wikis, and the coming…