Aliyah+Bonicelli's+Cognitive+Surplus+Notes

Know

-I know that industrialization didn't just create new ways of working but created a new way of living. -I know that TV took up the largest chunk of our free time. -I know that Wikipedia is a collaborative created encyclopedia that anyone can get on and edit.

Want to know

-I want to know How is the "Gin Craze" related to how internet changed our lives.? -I want to know what exactly makes it a surplus?

Learn

-I learned that the Gin Craze was a real event and that gin consumption rose dramatically in the early 1700s. -I learned that concentration and population caused people to drink. -I learned that industrialization gave people something to do. -I learned that TV is America's gin. -I learned that the average time spent watching TV in a week was 20 hours. -I learned that more TV watching displaces all other uses of free time, including time with friends and family. -I learned that people turn to favorite TV shows because they are lonely and feel less lonely when they are watching their shows. -I learned that TV leads us to shift more energy to material satisfaction and less to social satisfaction. -I learned that Americans watch roughly 2 hundred billion hours of TV every year and that represents about 2 thousand Wikipedia projects worth of free time annually.