During a presentation by
Clay Shirky,
author of Cognitive Surplus,
at the IFOH,
he shared that
North Americans spend
200 billion hours a year
watching TV.
In contrast,
Wikipedia is estimated
to have taken
a mere 100 million hours to construct.
That’s all pages, all languages.
As Clay Shirky states
this is “a rounding error”
compared to the time spent watching TV.
Think of the difference
you and I could make in the world
if we allocated
merely a fraction more
of our TV watching time
to a project we care about.
No, don’t think about it.
DO it.