People are creating new media and new ways to use it for different things. In the past, people were taken aback by science a, especially that it would take feedback from other participants and today “where digital media link over a billion people into the same network. This linking together, in turn, lets us tap our cognitive surplus, the trillion hours a year of free time the educated population of the planet has to spend doing things they care about.” (Clay Shirky, "Does The Internet Make you Smarter").