Something for nothing
It’s better to do something for nothing than to do nothing
Both Chris Anderson (Wired) and Clay Shirky (NYU) have suggested that as web developers, smart web-people and journalists have been laid-off (“pink-slipped in 09″), they are creating a growing “cognitive surplus”.
This excess ability is actively engaging in web-labours of love for free, if only to do something valuable with their time and advertise their skills.
Some of the best ideas since the last downturn and the dot-com bubble, do not yet have viable business models yet, but they are predicting that in 2009-10, the “gift economy” may deliver us some our greatest new web innovations.
From the same premise – expect the less well socially-adapted “EduPunks” – educated talented people out of work – to do some very high-profile, criminal and possibly spectacular web-hacks in the coming 12 months.
Smart people with time on their hands can be scary.
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