Information Is Beautiful illustrates the cognitive surplus:
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.
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