Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

摘要: From the Publisher: The number of travelers along information superhighway is increasing at a rate ten percent month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Though awed by their potential, we've feared computers as agents further alienation modern man: they take away jobs, minimize direct human contact, even shake faith in unique power brain. Pierre Levy believes, however, that rather than creating society where machines rule man, technology cyberspace have humanizing influence on us, foster emergence "collective intelligence" - meeting minds Internet validate contributions individual.