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This may be a cold-blooded way of looking at sharing—that we increasingly learn about the world through strangers’ random choices about what to share—but even that has some human benefit. As Kurt Vonnegut’s protagonist says at the close of The Sirens of Titan, “The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody.” The ways in which we are combining our cognitive surplus make that fate less likely by the day.
Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky
Fiction is everywhere — and therefore, in a certain sense, eliminated as a specific category. Where once Reagan’s own role as actor-president seemed “novel”, his subsequent career, in which moments from film history become montaged — in Reagan’s own hazy memory and in media accounts — with Reagan’s role in particular movies, the ludic becomes the ludicrous.
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