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            The video "Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world" made by Clay Shirky matters to myself, education, and the world. Cognitive: Pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning (Dictionary.com). Surplus: an amount, quantity, etc., greater than needed (Dictionary.com). In the video Clay Shirky presents his idea that people in the world have a mass surplus of free time, over a trillion hours a year of free time. And how there is also a mass amount of thinking, and collaborating on a large scale, which he calls cognitive surplus. This matters to me because Shirky shares a story of a Kenyan woman who helped launch a site that helped keep her country of Kenya safer. I realized that I can use my amount of free time more productively, through digital forms, to create and collaborate different forms of information. This matters to education because now for the first time ever, we have a place to use and express our “cognitive surplus.” Many classes in our school are taking advantage of the new digital age, by blogging, skypeing ect. This matters to the world because collaborating in different forms is an effective way to communicate. Right now more than ever we need effective forms of communication. In conclusion "Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world" matters to myself, education, and the world.