The new development of technology has caused a change in today's culture and its habit.  In today's age it is much easier to get the information you need earlier and the information you desire right after that.  With the technology we have at our disposal we are able to have more free time to create a cognitive surplus, to use our time in a way that benefits ourselves and our society.  In this article the author defines literacy as the ability to understand at a deeper level, almost in the same way that Socrates felt.  In a way for information not to be taken at face value.  The author does state that doing mindless things such as watching television or surfing the web is not always bad to do in one's free time as long as he or she balances it with things that benefit cognizance. 

If one were to use the Method they would be able to see things such as these:

1. Binaries - Something that the world will never grow tired of.
2. Patterns dealing with repetition - Information that comes up more than once in a literary work.
3. Anomalies - Information the general public is unaware of
4. Strands of similarities - Using the surplus of what you have to your advantage

The strands of similarities in this article talks about how one should use the extra time or other resources to his or her advantage.  Wasting these every time someone runs into them leads to becoming stagnant of digressive in one's cognizant growth.