Social Surplus

I just read this incredible article about social surplus and it’s quite inspirational.

Here’s a quick excerpt:

Let’s say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That’s about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.

I think that’s going to be a big deal. Don’t you?

If you’ve got a little bit of time on your hands go read the article for yourself and get just a little bit excited.