Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity – Boing Boing

By Adam | Published: April 27, 2008

Nothing too crazy here, but I really like the sentiment:

“Cognitive surplus” [is] the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light entertainment from the past century were a way of absorbing that surplus”

Link: Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity – Boing Boing

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