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An edition of The Social Life of Information (2000)

The Social Life of Information

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"For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything - from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more skeptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution.".

"Drawing from rich learning experiences at Xerox PARC, from examples such as IBM, Chiat/Day Advertising, and California's "Virtual University," and from historical, social, and cultural research, the authors sharply challenge the futurists' sweeping predictions. They explain how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep.

Rather than aiming technological bullets at these "relics," we should instead look for ways that the new world of bits can learn from and complement them."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pages
320

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.

Published in
Boston
Copyright Date
2000

Classifications

Library of Congress
HM851 .B76 2000, HM851.B76 2000, HM851 .B76 2000eb, HM 851 B76 2000

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
x, 320 p. ;
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL13626916M
Internet Archive
sociallifeofinfo0000brow
ISBN 10
0875847625
ISBN 13
9780875847627
LCCN
99049068
OCLC/WorldCat
42475952, 449921811, 47011526
Library Thing
7478731
Goodreads
238129

Work Description

The Social Life of Information is a 2000 book by John Seely Brown (the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director of Xerox PARC) and Paul Duguid (Adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information), which discusses recently developed practices in the transmission of information in social and business contexts.

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Living in the information age can occasionally feel like being driven by someone with tunnel vision.
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