Head in the cloud
Subtitle: why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up
By: William Poundstone
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780316256544
Subjects: Information behavior; Theory of Knowledge; Big data
Description: Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Facts are obsolete; title: Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect; title: 1. "I wore the juice"; title: 2. A map of ignorance; title: 3. Dumb history; title: 4. The one-in-five rule; title: 5. The low-information electorate; title: Part Two: The knowledge premium; title: 6. Putting a price tag on facts; title: 7. Elevator-pitch science; title: 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies; title: 9. Nanoframe; title: 10. Is shrimp kosher?; title: 11. Philosophers and reality stars; title: 12. Sex and absurdity; title: 13. Moving the goalposts; title: 14. Marshmallow test; title: 15. The value of superficial learning; title: Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world; title: 16. When dumbing down is smart; title: 17. Curating knowledge; title: 18. The ice-cap riddle; title: 19. The fox and the hedgehog.