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Clay Shirky: Cómo el excedente cognitivo cambiará el mundo

Clay Shirky mira el "excedente cognitivo", el trabajo compartido, en línea, que hacemos con nuestros ciclos cerebrales libres. Mientras estamos ocupados editando Wikipedia, posteando en Ushahidi (y, sí, haciendo LOLcats), estamos construyendo un mundo mejor, más cooperativo.

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Clay Shirky mira el "excedente cognitivo", el trabajo compartido, en línea, que hacemos con nuestros ciclos cerebrales libres. Mientras estamos ocupados editando Wikipedia, posteando en Ushahidi (y, sí, haciendo LOLcats), estamos construyendo un mundo mejor, más cooperativo.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications.

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