Clay Shirky about television and somehow waste of time

This is a talk of Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008.

He explains in a very entertaining way (in short) that people in the current generation watch too much tv and that in the time e.g. the people in US sit in front of their tv the whole wikipipedia could be written a many thousand times.

The new generation seems to use the media in a more active way. They write blog post and are more active in stating their opinion.

A quote:
TV Reporter: Where do people find all the time to do wikipedia?
Clay Shirky: No one who works in TV gets to ask that question.
You know where the times comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you have been masking for the last 50 years.


P.S.
Clay Shirky is known not only to the "tagging world" for his widely-read blog post with the title: "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". Tom Gruber refers to this post in an often cited article: "Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges". But that is an other story...