our cognitive heat sinks- April 27, 2008 This is a fantastic video about how society deals with change by creating cognitive "heat sinks", which I'd never really thought of in those terms before, but makes perfect sense.Clay Shirky goes over how we reach periods of societal change, and lose ourselves in mindless excess of things like alcohol, or sitcoms, and then start to tap that stored wealth of cognition and slowly bring ourselves to the next societal level.I highly recommend checking it out, it really helped me solidify my...http://www.coziahr.com/2008/04/our-cognitive-heat-sinks.php |