Title: Collective intelligence
First published: 1997
Description: The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of ten percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Though awed by their potential, we've feared computers as agents of the further alienation of modern man: they take away our jobs, minimize direct human contact, even shake our faith in the unique power of the human brain. Pierre Levy believes, however, that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a "collective intelligence"--A meeting of minds on the Internet - that will validate the contributions of the individual.
Subjects: Information technology, Social aspects, Social aspects of Information technology, Cyberspace, Information society, Business &amp; economics, Information management
LC classification: T58.5 .L4913 1997