Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus

This article is about how we as a human race currently have been wasting countless hours watching t.v. and on the computer when we could be doing more productive things with our time. Shirky is making the argument that we are wasting our time doing meaningless things when we could be spending time making a difference in the world. This articles matters because it addresses the idea problem in the world today that we are too caught up in television and technology that we forget about the other things we need to fix and solve.