Bogdan Bivolaru bogdan.bivolaru@gmail.com writes:
Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for.
Very nice. I'll take that anecdote and find people who need to learn it :-)
Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change.
What's the referent of "this"?
Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching /Gilligan's Island/, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.
Yes, yes, yes.
"If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes."
What's "cognitive surplus"?