Social Surplus
I found a fantastic speech that discusses the role of television and our collective available time as a society. People often ask me where I find the hours in the day all that I do. The answer is that I don’t watch TV. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much a fan of Mythbusters as the next person, but it’s a rare week when the television turns on more than twice.
It appears that in the time that we spend watching TV, we could create roughly 2,000 Wikipedia-sized projects. If that’s anywhere even close to true, isn’t it time that we scale back our watching and start doing something? Come to think of it, that’s how I found myself writing here.
So this month, just once, record American Idol on your TiVo, watch it in fast forward mode, and use that extra time to do something useful.
