Infotopia

How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

AvCass R. Sunstein

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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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 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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Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-07
Mått:146 x 221 x 25 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195189285

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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 NeedDissent, and Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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In this delightful book, Cass R. Sunstein offers a cogent, compact and gently witty discussion of information sharing.

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Introduction: Dreams and Nightmares1: The (Occasional) Power of Numbers2: The Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups3: Four Big Problems4: Money, Prices, and Prediction Markets5: Many Working Minds: Wikis, Open Source Software, and Blogs6: Implications and ReformsConclusion--Realizing PromisesAppendix: Prediction MarketsNotesIndex