Collective intelligence : mankind's emerging world in cyberspace /
Lévy, Pierre, 1956-
Collective intelligence : mankind's emerging world in cyberspace / Pierre Lévy ; translated from French by Robert Bononno. - xxviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Translation of: L'intelligence collective.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
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.
English, French.
0306456354 9780306456350
97026272
Information technology--Social aspects
Information society
Cyberspace
T58.5 / .L4913 1997
303.483
Collective intelligence : mankind's emerging world in cyberspace / Pierre Lévy ; translated from French by Robert Bononno. - xxviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Translation of: L'intelligence collective.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
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.
English, French.
0306456354 9780306456350
97026272
Information technology--Social aspects
Information society
Cyberspace
T58.5 / .L4913 1997
303.483