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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Harvard professor Puttnam observed that social trends were leading to an increasingly disconnected and passive consumer, who went to the bowling alley alone, as he was no longer a social creature.

Ahern needn’t have let such dark thoughts distract; in Cognitve Surplus, a striking and accessible book, Clay Shirky asserts that our collective future is rich and ripe, full of new forms of collaboration.