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Infotopia
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780195189285
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (07 September 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 273
- Weight
- 513 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 221 x 146 x 25.2 mm
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