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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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Chapter One

Limits to Information

On an average weekday the New York Times contains more information than any contemporary of Shakespeare’s would have acquired in a lifetime.

—Anonymous (and ubiquitous)

Every year, better methods are being devised to quantify information and distill it into quadrillions of atomistic packets of data.

—Bill Gates

By 2047 . . . all information about physical objects, including humans, buildings, processes and organizations, will be online. This is both desirable and inevitable.

—Gordon Bell and Jim Gray

This is the datafication of shared knowledge.

—Tom Phillips, Deja News1

It now seems a curiously innocent time, though not that long ago, when the lack of information appeared to be one of society’s fundamental ...

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ISBN: 9781633692428