Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Levy;Robert Bonomo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

From the Publisher: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.