Cognitive Surplus?
Click below to see Clay Shirky explain his theory of today’s Cognitive Surplus.
Unfamiliar with the activities Americans and others had before the advent of TV, Internet I think there’s probably a fair case for those who built houses, tilled the land, translated books etc… So that’s a counter to his thoughts, but the main idea of non-TV time unleashing untapped cognitive energy towards interactive has a lot of truth.