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why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up

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An edition of Head in the cloud (2016)

Head in the cloud

why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up

First edition.

by

  • ★★★ 3.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 3 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.

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Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Pages
340

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Subjects

Information behavior, Theory of Knowledge, Big data, Knowledge, theory of

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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
2017, Little Brown & Company
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Head in the Cloud: Dispatches from a Post-Fact World
2017, Oneworld Publications
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Head in the cloud: why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up
2016, Little, Brown and Company
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Head in the Cloud: The Power of Knowledge in the Age of Google
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Facts are obsolete
Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect
1. "I wore the juice"
2. A map of ignorance
3. Dumb history
4. The one-in-five rule
5. The low-information electorate
Part Two: The knowledge premium
6. Putting a price tag on facts
7. Elevator-pitch science
8. Grammar police, grammar hippies
9. Nanoframe
10. Is shrimp kosher?
11. Philosophers and reality stars
12. Sex and absurdity
13. Moving the goalposts
14. Marshmallow test
15. The value of superficial learning
Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world
16. When dumbing down is smart
17. Curating knowledge
18. The ice-cap riddle
19. The fox and the hedgehog.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/20973
Library of Congress
BD175 .P674 2016, BD175.P674 2016

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Pagination
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Number of pages
340

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OL27215537M
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ISBN 10
0316256544
ISBN 13
9780316256544
LCCN
2015953952
OCLC/WorldCat
953173374

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