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The social life of information

Title
  1. The social life of information / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
Published by
  1. Boston : Harvard Business School Press, [2000], ©2000.
Author
  1. Brown, John Seely.

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Additional authors
  1. Duguid, Paul, 1954-
Description
  1. x, 320 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "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.".
  2. "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.
  3. 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.
Subject
  1. Information technology > Social aspects
  2. Information Systems
  3. Social Conditions
  4. Information society
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.