Infotopia : How Many Minds Produce Knowledge PDF
by Cass R. (Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Karl N. Llewe Sunstein
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The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded?
Cass R. Sunstein here develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives.
New ways, many Internet-based, to share and aggregate information--including wikis, open-source software, and prediction markets--are helping companies, schools, governments, and individuals not only to acquire, but also to create, ever-growing bodies of accurate knowledge without succumbing to the dangers of a hive-mind mentality.
In a world where opinion and anecdote increasingly compete on equal footing with hard evidence, the on-line effort of many minds coming together could provide the best path to infotopia.
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- Pages:288 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line illus.
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:07/09/2006
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- ISBN:9780195189285
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:PDF
- Pages:288 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line illus.
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:07/09/2006
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- ISBN:9780195189285