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The Social Life of Information
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The Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid, David Weinberger
February 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
8h 28m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Afterword

Beyond Information

We said at the outset that we wanted to avoid rushing to solutions. And some 220 book pages later, we still have few to offer. We write this afterword in the spirit of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who called the final chapter of his novel Rasselas, “The conclusion, in which nothing is concluded.”1 We do, however, want to draw together some of the threads that run through several of these chapters but are not necessarily emphasized in any one.

Resources and Constraints

First we want to emphasize the complex character of resources and constraints. These, like good and bad people, don’t always fall into two mutually exclusive groups. Sometimes there is some confusing overlap. Many of our criticisms here ...

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ISBN: 9781633692428