PLN #23

“How Cognitive surplus will Change the World“by Clay Shirky matters because he talks about the importance of cognitive surplus, the ability for the world’s population to volunteer and collaborate on a large scale, sometimes global. This article matters to me because cognitive surplus would give me the ability to receive a lot more accurate information. If your studding the earthquake in Haiti, then you cannot just use Wikipedia because it inaccurate and it’s only one source. A scientist does a number of trials for a science experiment so he can get accurate data. “How Cognitive surplus will Change the World “matters to education because schools would be able to excess boat loads of information by just typing in one URL. This would save teachers and students time because we wouldn’t have to verify if the article is true because hundreds of other people wrote the same thing or not. This article matters to the world because it would a revolutionary way to make sure news is true while searching it. If 20 News channels saw theirs should be be snow and someone built a engine to put this data together there will be snow. “How Cognitive surplus will Change the World” matters because it’s a revolutionary idea to modernize collecting data.