TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lévy,Pierre
TI  - Collective intelligence: mankind's emerging world in cyberspace 
SN  - 0306456354
AV  - T58.5 .L4913 1997
U1  - 303.483 23
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Plenum Trade
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Information society
KW  - Cyberspace
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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