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Jul 19
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Cognitive Surplus visualized

I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.

He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it.


Shocking proportion. Interestingly, when I sketched the diagram, my imagination had the scale way wrong.


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