The social life of information

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Label

The social life of information

Statement of responsibility

John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

Creator

• Brown, John Seely

Contributor

• Duguid, Paul, 1954-

Subject

• Information society
• Information technology -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything - from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more skeptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution." "Drawing from rich learning experiences at Xerox PARC, from examples such as IBM, Chiat/Day Advertising, and California's "Virtual University," and from historical, social, and cultural research, the authors sharply challenge the futurists' sweeping predictions. They explain how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep. Rather than aiming technological bullets at these "relics," we should instead look for ways that the new world of bits can learn from and complement them."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

303.48/33

Index

index present

LC call number

HM851

LC item number

.B76 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography