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Infotopia

How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

By Cass R. Sunstein

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| Hardcover | 9780195189285

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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 Continue

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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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0195189280
  • ISBN-13: 9780195189285
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publish date: 2006-09-07
  • Dimensions: 209 mm x 141 mm x 23 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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