Here‟s a quote, from a speech Shirky gave in April 2008:
And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we’re talking about. It’s so large that even a small change could have huge ramifications. Let’s say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year … One percent of that is 98 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.

From You are not a Gadgets.

What a revelation as this is becoming my reality, less and less TV (for what purpose) the numbing of minds and thought and value as a contributor to society. Have I discovered a real life matrix???