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Collective intelligence : mankind's emerging world in cyberspace / Pierre Lévy ; translated from French by Robert Bononno.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Plenum Trade, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xxviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306456354
  • 9780306456350
Uniform titles:
  • Intelligence collective. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 23
LOC classification:
  • T58.5 .L4913 1997
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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