Lévy, Pierre,  1956- <br/><br/>
Collective intelligence :  mankind's emerging world in cyberspace / 
Pierre Lévy ; translated from French by Robert Bononno. 
 - xxviii, 277 pages :  illustrations ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> Translation of: L'intelligence collective. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English, French. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0306456354 9780306456350 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97026272 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information technology--Social aspects<br/>Information society<br/>Cyberspace
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T58.5  / .L4913 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.483