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The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? Cass R. Sunstein here develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives. New ways, many Internet-based, to share and aggregate information--including wikis, open-source software, and prediction markets--are helping companies, schools, governments, and individuals not only to acquire, but also to create, ever-growing bodies of accurate knowledge without succumbing to the dangers of a hive-mind mentality. In a world where opinion and anecdote increasingly compete on equal footing with hard evidence, the on-line effort of many minds coming together could provide the best path to infotopia.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Infotopia
• Author: Cass Sunstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780195189285
• ISBN: 0195189280
• ID: 04476610
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 456 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 150 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. September 2006

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