Social Life of Information

Name: Social Life of Information
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ISBN: 9780875847627

ISBN-10: 0875847625

ISBN-13: 9780875847627

Edition: 2000

Authors: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

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To see the future we can build with information technology, we must look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it.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.John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid help us to see through frenzied visions of the future…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

John Seely Brown is Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp and former director of its Palo AltoResearch Center (PARC), and co-author of The Social Life of Information.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Tunneling Ahead



Limits to Information



Agents and Angels



Home Alone



Practice Makes Process



Learning--in Theory and in Practice



Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge



Reading the Background



Re-education


Afterword: Beyond Information


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Authors