October 6, 2010

Two hundred billion of hours wasted?

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According to internet guru Clay Shirky, Americans watch roughly two hundred billion hours (200 000 000 000) of TV every year. That represents about 2000 Wikipedias’ projects worth of free time annually assuming that it took one hundred  million hours (100 000 000) of human thought to build it.

( Source, Cognitive Surplus, by Clay Shirky, 2010, The Penguin Press).

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If we could recuperate only half of these hours doing something more useful for our society, we would recuperate 28,6 billion days.

What do you think?

 

June 7, 2010

The power to choose

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“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do”

Aristotle

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To choose or not to choose?

To invest or to spend?

To compliment or to criticize?

To exercise or to be lazy?

To eat healthy food or junk food?

To study or to watch TV?

To smile or to look sad?

To look at things positively or to look at them negatively?

To feel gratitude or to complain?

To look forward or to look back?

To use our time in a smart way or to waste our limited time?

What will you choose?