{"id":904,"date":"2008-10-19T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=904"},"modified":"2008-10-19T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:20:21","slug":"solitaire-sex-and-architectures-of-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/10\/19\/solitaire-sex-and-architectures-of-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitaire, sex, and architectures of collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00b4m in Peru<\/strong> at the moment with Scott Ananian, so here\u00b4s a quick post from the recyclingbin of recent history:<\/p>\n

Clay Shirky and Martin Wattenberg team up to battle the TIMEWARS<\/strong> villains.\u00a0\u00a0 They estimate that a weekend of commercials is 1 Wikipedia<\/a> — 100 million hours of human attention.<\/p>\n

That’s not quite right — Wikipedia is a living process, not only doubling in size, scope, and effort a little over once a year; its creation is not simply a matter of time invested, but networks formed, and social connections and research off-wiki that lead to the same.\u00a0\u00a0 And commercial watching may be passive… but the point stands.\u00a0 And as I have noted before, Solitaire<\/strong> is an even more explicit example of this — an active way to waste time, which soaks up billions of hours of attention a year.<\/p>\n

And let’s not forget the massive amounts of time spent on indulgences — sex and its trappings, food, artefactless social networking and the like — something which, like idle leisure time, balloons to fit the time available, in crisis and in plenty.\u00a0\u00a0 Most people have an extra 4 to 5 hours a day to devote to creative collaboration, especially if it satisfies their social and entertainment drives and overlaps neatly with \/ contributes to their work.\u00a0 This comes to 300B<\/strong> hours a year, in our country alone.\u00a0 This is among the greatest assets in the world, available equally to all; now go change society<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00b4m in Peru at the moment with Scott Ananian, so here\u00b4s a quick post from the recyclingbin of recent history: Clay Shirky and Martin Wattenberg team up to battle the TIMEWARS villains.\u00a0\u00a0 They estimate that a weekend of commercials is 1 Wikipedia — 100 million hours of human attention. That’s not quite right — Wikipedia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-eA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}