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In a comment about Clay Shirky’s cognitive surplus concept by Heresiarch (appended to a Making Light post, via FastForwardBlog, via Harold Jarche*), we read:

… 1) Shirky’s claim isn’t that everyone will suddenly devote every leisure hour to writing a novel/inventing cold fusion–only that, all of a sudden, it will be much easier to do so. People might still only choose to use 1% more of their leisure time in a productive fashion, but that’s still 1% improvement, and small percentages add up to a lot of productivity when you’re talking millions of people.

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