Recycled Time?
It is a self evident and commonly accepted truth that we live in a world with scarce resources. Much of humanity lacks access to potable water, sustainable sources of food and energy, etc. However with all of these physical resources in mind, the scarcest resource is not one of them. The scarcest resource is time itself. Due to the fact that time cannot be replaced or replenished, makes it the scarcest resource of all. Copyright: Ed Gregory/ Pexels But does not mean there is cause to cry over "lost time" whenever we consider the massive amounts of time that we spend doing regular mundane activities on the Internet for work or play. By using reCAPTCHA, individuals are able to in essence, recycle time in the sense that the small amount of time spent on each reCAPTCHA. According to a TED Talk headed by Luis von Ahn, around 200 million CAPTCHA's are typed everyday on a global scale. In theory, this amounts to humanity collectively wasting roughly 500,000 hours daily o...