In Clay Shirky’s How Will Cognitive Surplus Change the World? He talks about people will be able to contribute their unspent time to help and build a better and safer world for the coming generations. Ushahidi is one of the technological advancements that Shirky supports because he it helps people around the world and anyone is able to contribute to it. Ushahidi helped Haiti in the recovery from the earthquake and the controversial election of Kenya. Everyone who contributes will be helping the cause. This matters to me because if there is 3 trillion hours of unspent time a year then I would like to try and contribute some of it to helping others even if it is online. This matters to education because maybe someday students could use it to communicate with students in other countries to learn what they are studying and how things are done there. They could also communicate and have a world wide school system. Cognitive surplus matters to the world because if people need help around the world and people contribute a small amount of their time to potentially save another’s life is always good. I believe cognitive surplus is leading us in a good direction to helping the world.
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