Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge - Couverture rigide

Sunstein, Cass R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195189280 ISBN 13 : 9780195189285

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Infotopia How can we ensure that the accurate information emerges and is heeded? This book develops an optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Cass R. Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, a contributing editor at the New Republic and the American Prospect, and a frequent contributor as well to such publications as the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the recipient of the Henderson Prize and the Goldsmith Book Prize; his many books include Radicals in Robes, Republic.com, Why Societies Need Dissent, and Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195189280
• ISBN 13: 9780195189285
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288