Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Little, Brown SparkISBN-13:9780316256520ISBN-10:316256528UPC:9780316256520Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, ComputersBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC9PJ5Y5FV
Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little, Brown SparkISBN-13:9780316256520ISBN-10:316256528UPC:9780316256520Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, ComputersBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC9PJ5Y5FV
William Poundstone is the author of fourteen books -- including Rock Breaks Scissors, Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?, and Fortune's Formula, which was Amazon Editor's pick for the number one nonfiction book of the year. He has written for the Believer, the Economist, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Esquire, Harper's, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times...
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