Comments on: Cognitive Surplus, book review by Evgeny Morozov https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cognitive-surplus-book-review-by-evgeny-morozov/2010/06/27 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:06:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Rob Myers https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cognitive-surplus-book-review-by-evgeny-morozov/2010/06/27/comment-page-1#comment-431263 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:08:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=9443#comment-431263 “Just as gin helped the British to smooth out the brutal consequences of the Industrial Revolution, the Internet is helping us to deal more constructively with the abundance of free time generated by modern economies.”

Shirky compares gin to *television*.

The reviewer’s mistake here is telling… 😉

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