Everything Is Miscellaneous
David Weinberger
Explore how the second-generation web is upending the physical world in this business visionary's guide. Bestselling author David Weinberger explains the transformative effects of the digital world, from the social value of public information to the virtue of messiness. Learn why more information leads to greater efficiency and social knowledge, and how customers now trust their peers over traditional authorities. Discover how digital knowledge can benefit any industry, as demonstrated by the rise of digital music.
Publish Date
2007-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
2007-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.74
ISBN
9780805088113
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Why is a book the most important organising medium for talking about or reading about the internet? Weinberger is a guy who gets this – that the internet is a way of ordering or not ordering reality, that you stack things in a pile, that it appears to be very chaotic, that this is a fundamental change in information processing and it’s not in every way book-like or driven by narrative. I think Weinberger is an important and underrated thinker – this is a book that is easy to comprehend and is also fun. I don’t think it’s made the big splash of Clay Shirky or Sherry Turkle or some other people, but if you want my list of five then it’s got to be on it. – source