Ghost of Midnight
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Putting people to work…
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 by Michael • No comments yet
I came across some “manhour” data today from a variety of sources. Got me thinking, so I laid it out in these graphs (each graph shows the estimated number of human-hours of labor required to complete each project)…
So how do we get more of those TV watching hours put to productive use? Plenty of problems to be solved out there. Thanks to Clay Shirky, Luis Van Ahn, Wikipedia.
Posted in: Clay Shirky, Front Porch Forum, Social Media
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