Collective Intelligence - Paperback
by Pierre Levy
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780738202617ISBN-10:738202614UPC:9780738202617Book Category:Social Science, ComputersBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Information Technology, CyberneticsSize:8.05 x 5.06 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCB2PEENK6
The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre L vy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advancement.Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, L vy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, Collective Intelligence is a visionary work.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780738202617ISBN-10:738202614UPC:9780738202617Book Category:Social Science, ComputersBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Information Technology, CyberneticsSize:8.05 x 5.06 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCB2PEENK6
Pierre Lévy is a professor in the Department of Hypermedia at the University of Paris-VIII, scientific advisor to the TriVium company, and member of the advisory board of the Pompidou Center's Virtual Review. He holds advanced degrees in sociology, the history of science, and the sciences of information and communication, and has published numerous works in French on new technologies.
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