Shirkey suggests that to be able to take a single idea and have it reach global deployment within the space of three years, you need both digital technology and human generosity. Now that we have the tools and the technology, we need the time, energy, and ideas and we need to put them out there. There is over 1 trillion hours a year of free time on this planet, and it is a curious notion to think of what all those hands and minds are doing during it. In the 20th century, our outlets of media and technology were not advanced enough to see what everyone else was doing, except for what was presented to us by a small host of producers. Shirkey suggests that we were “couch-potato consumers” because there were no other options for us. Now that we can, through the internet, peak into the musings and creations of others, we get a glimpse of what goes into some of those 1 trillion hours (though sometimes you wish you could delete a glimpse) “Even the stupidest creative act is still a creative act,” Shirkey says,
Shirkey suggests that to be able to take a single idea and have it reach global deployment within the space of three years, you need both digital technology and human generosity. Now that we have the tools and the technology, we need the time, energy, and ideas and we need to put them out there. There is over 1 trillion hours a year of free time on this planet, and it is a curious notion to think of what all those hands and minds are doing during it. In the 20th century, our outlets of media and technology were not advanced enough to see what everyone else was doing, except for what was presented to us by a small host of producers. Shirkey suggests that we were “couch-potato consumers” because there were no other options for us. Now that we can, through the internet, peak into the musings and creations of others, we get a glimpse of what goes into some of those 1 trillion hours (though sometimes you wish you could delete a glimpse) “Even the stupidest creative act is still a creative act,” Shirkey says,