The semantic sphere 1
Subtitle: computation, cognition, and information economy
By: Pierre Levy
Publisher: ISTE; Wiley; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-ISTE
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781848212510
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General; Semantic Web; Metalanguage; Human information processing; Information society
Description: "The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power. How can we exploit this medium to augment our personal and social cognitive processes at the service of human development? Combining a deep knowledge of humanities and social sciences as well as a real familiarity with computer science issues, this book explains the collaborative construction of a global hypercortex coordinated by a computable metalanguage. By recognizing fully the symbolic and social nature of human cognition, we could transform our current opaque global brain into a reflexive collective intelligence"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.