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The Internet of Us - Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data (Hardcover)
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The Internet of Us - Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data (Hardcover)
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We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing.
With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our
fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia
shelf in search of answers. We just open our browsers, type in a
few keywords and wait for the information to come to us. Indeed,
the Internet has revolutionized the way we learn and know, as well
as how we interact with each other. And yet this explosion of
technological innovation has also produced a curious paradox: even
as we know more, we seem to understand less. While a wealth of
literature has been devoted to life with the Internet, the deep
philosophical implications of this seismic shift have not been
properly explored until now. Demonstrating that knowledge based on
reason plays an essential role in society and that there is much
more to "knowing" than just acquiring information, leading
philosopher Michael Patrick Lynch shows how our digital way of life
makes us overvalue some ways of processing information over others,
and thus risks distorting what it means to be human. With
far-reaching implications, Lynch's argument charts a path from
Plato's cave to Shannon's mathematical theory of information to
Google Glass, illustrating that technology itself isn't the
problem, nor is it the solution. Instead, it will be the way in
which we adapt our minds to these new tools that will ultimately
decide whether or not the "Internet of Things"-all those gadgets on
our wrists, in our pockets and on our laps-will be a net gain for
humanity. Along the way, Lynch uses a philosopher's lens to examine
some of the most urgent issues facing digital life today, including
how social media is revolutionizing the way we think about privacy;
why a greater reliance on Wikipedia and Google doesn't necessarily
make knowledge "more democratic"; and the perils of using "big
data" alone to predict cultural trends. Promising to modernize our
understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age, The
Internet of Us builds on previous works by Nicholas Carr, James
Gleick and Jaron Lanier to give us a necessary guide on how to
navigate the philosophical quagmire that is the Information Age.
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