The Social Life of Information
By: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
Contributors: Duguid, Paul, 1954-
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780875847627
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Information society; Information technology -- Social aspects
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.