Comments on: What have you done with your cognitive surplus today? http://iplicensing.net/2008/08/01/what-have-you-done-with-your-cognitive-surplus-today/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:28:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: hb http://iplicensing.net/2008/08/01/what-have-you-done-with-your-cognitive-surplus-today/#comment-256 hb Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:40:05 +0000 http://iplicensing.net/2008/08/01/what-have-you-done-with-your-cognitive-surplus-today/#comment-256 Great article. I totally agree that there are huge economic consequences of the cognitive surplus. Where we’ve ordinarily relied on machines and computing to make us more efficient through process and structure, we tend to forget how the machine sort of pushes back and makes us work better through structure too. I figure the next huge productivity leaps will come from machines that make leveraging human understanding easier, and in turn create a culture of producers. This will be a hard phenomena to observe, but I suspect the US will do well since we are still the hub of all technology developments in the world. The more interesting derivative indicator will be how developing players with varying commitments to bridging digital divides fare. I actually think there is a good chance South Korea and Japan will be on the leading edge of this new development; the impact of that is going to be far reaching, everything from economics to language could be affected. Great article. I totally agree that there are huge economic consequences of the cognitive surplus. Where we’ve ordinarily relied on machines and computing to make us more efficient through process and structure, we tend to forget how the machine sort of pushes back and makes us work better through structure too. I figure the next huge productivity leaps will come from machines that make leveraging human understanding easier, and in turn create a culture of producers.

This will be a hard phenomena to observe, but I suspect the US will do well since we are still the hub of all technology developments in the world. The more interesting derivative indicator will be how developing players with varying commitments to bridging digital divides fare. I actually think there is a good chance South Korea and Japan will be on the leading edge of this new development; the impact of that is going to be far reaching, everything from economics to language could be affected.

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