Um corno de Amaltéia ...

"Someone born in 1960 has watched something like 50,000 hours of television already. Fifty thousand hours—more than five and a half solid years. (Moi ici: BTW, eu lembro-me de ver "A Família Partridge")
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Somehow, watching television became a part-time job for every citizen in the developed world. But once we stop thinking of all that time as individual minutes to be whiled away and start thinking of it as a social asset that can be harnessed, it all looks very different. The buildup of this free time among the world’s educated population—maybe a trillion hours per year—is a new resource. It’s what I refer to as the cognitive surplus.
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A surplus that post-TV media—blogs, wikis, and Twitter—can tap for other, often more valuable, uses.
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Any sense of how much of that giant block of free time is being redirected?
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Shirky: We’re still in the very early days. So far, it’s largely young people who are exploring the alternatives, but already they are having a huge impact. We can do a back-of-the-envelope calculation, for example, using Wikipedia, to see how far we still have to go. All the articles, edits, and arguments about articles and edits represent around 100 million hours of human labor. That’s a lot of time. But remember: Americans watch about 200 billion hours of TV every year."
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Uma perspectiva interessante sobre a ocupação do tempo livre, do tempo que podemos usar como muito bem entendemos. Uma galáxia de surpresas, de novidades, tudo sem o controlo do Estado ou de um patrão, sem horários, sem salário...
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Trechos retirados de "Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution"