1) The article is about how the industrial revolution transformed society and how people should take advantage of the opportunities of cognitive surpluses and deploy it in more engaging ways.
2) Literacy is defined as being able to participate to create a new resource intend of just sitting around watching something such as TV. This definition is somewhat different than the one in the Wolf and Carr articles. In the Wolf article, literacy is defined as being able to think deeply about the information that you read. In the Carr article, literacy is being defined as being able to actually read an entire article and think for yourself. In the Shirky article, literacy is being defined as being able to participate, produce, and share information.
3) A cognitive surplus is a person's free time to produce knowledge and share it.
4) It matters because it calls people to start producing and sharing knowledge with the world to make it a better place.
5 and 6) Cognitive surplus is used a lot. It is used as a call to action to get people to gain knowledge and share it with the world.
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