The Internet of Us

LYNCH,MICHAELP

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Author
LYNCH,MICHAELP
Publish Date
04/01/2017
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
LIVRGHT
Subtitle
Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
Number of Pages
256
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
1631492772
ISBN-13
9781631492778
SKU
9781631492778

Description

"An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" ―David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of Books
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. Now firmly established as a pioneering work of modern philosophy, The Internet of Us has helped revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age. Indeed, demonstrating that knowledge based on reason plays an essential role in society and that there is more to “knowing” than just acquiring information, leading philosopher Michael P. Lynch shows how our digital way of life makes us value some ways of processing information over others, and thus risks distorting the greatest traits of mankind. Charting a path from Plato’s cave to Google Glass, the result is a necessary guide on how to navigate the philosophical quagmire that is the "Internet of Things."