The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown

The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown

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Argues that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the 'tunnel vision' that information-driven technologies breed. This book explains 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.

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The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown

Argues that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the 'tunnel vision' that information-driven technologies breed. This book explains 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.
John Seely Brown is Chief Scientist at Xerox Corporation and Director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
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ISBN 13 9780875847627
ISBN 10 0875847625
Title The Social Life of Information
Author John Seely Brown
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Harvard Business Review Press
Year published 2000-02-01
Number of pages 336
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