Collective intelligence mankind's emerging world in cyberspace
Prologue: The Nomad Planet -- 1. The Just: The Ethics of Collective Intelligence -- 2. Human Qualities: The Economy of Collective Intelligence -- 3. From the Molar to the Molecular: The Technology of Collective Intelligence -- 4. The Dynamics of Intelligent Cities: A Manifesto for Molecular Politics...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York u.a.
Plenum Trade
c1997
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue: The Nomad Planet -- 1. The Just: The Ethics of Collective Intelligence -- 2. Human Qualities: The Economy of Collective Intelligence -- 3. From the Molar to the Molecular: The Technology of Collective Intelligence -- 4. The Dynamics of Intelligent Cities: A Manifesto for Molecular Politics -- 5. Choreography of Angelic Bodies: The Atheology of Collective Intelligence -- 6. The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace: The Aesthetics of Collective Intelligence -- 7. The Four Spaces -- 8. Anthropological Space -- 9. Identity -- 10. Semiotics -- 11. Figures of Space and Time -- 12. Navigational Instruments -- 13. Objects of Knowledge -- 14. Epistemologies -- 15. The Relationship between the Spaces: Toward a Political Philosophy -- Epilogue: Voyage to Knossos. The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of ten percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Though awed by their potential, we've feared computers as agents of the further alienation of modern man: they take away our jobs, minimize direct human contact, even shake our faith in the unique power of the human brain. Pierre Levy believes, however, that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a "collective intelligence" - a meeting of minds on the Internet - that will validate the contributions of the individual The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of ten percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Though awed by their potential, we've feared computers as agents of the further alienation of modern man: they take away our jobs, minimize direct human contact, even shake our faith in the unique power of the human brain. Pierre Levy believes, however, that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a "collective intelligence" - a meeting of minds on the Internet - that will validate the contributions of the individual |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 257 - 268 |
| Beschreibung: | XXVIII, 277 Seiten graph. Darst 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0738202614 0-7382-0261-4 0306456354 0-306-45635-4 |