In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming not only social institutions but also bedrock concepts of our world such as space, time, self, knowledge-even reality itself. Through stories of life on the Web, a unique take on Web sites, and a pervasive sense of humor, Weinberger is the first to put the Web into the social and intellectual context we need to begin assessing its true impact...
In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marsh...
"Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about the] second-generation Web."--Los Angeles Times
Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world--in which everything has a place--are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects:
- Information is now a social asset and should be made public, for anyone to link, organize, and make more valuable.
- There's no such thing as "too much" information. More...
"Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about the] second-generation Web."--Los Angeles Times
With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very...
With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means t...
Doc Searls e David Weinberger, autori nel 1999 del Cluetrain Manifesto insieme a Christopher Locke e Rick Levine, danno nuovamente voce al Popolo della Rete, affinche chi abbia smarrito la via dell'Open Internet possa aprire gli occhi sui pericoli che minacciano il futuro del Web e agire di conseguenza. Queste Nuove Tesi (New Clues) sono una profezia sul futuro del Web, scritta con toni appassionati e visionari. Riuscira il Popolo della Rete ad attraversare un deserto popolato di orde di predoni, per entrare nella terra dell'Open Internet? Il futuro del Web dipende anche da te."
Doc Searls e David Weinberger, autori nel 1999 del Cluetrain Manifesto insieme a Christopher Locke e Rick Levine, danno nuovamente voce al Popolo dell...
