The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

I am really enjoying this book!!.In chapter 2, he talks about how he wrote down 4 tasks and worked to find answers to these 4 items without using the internet. He describes the challenges he faced in doing that as the equivalent of dressing up in Civil War costumes and participating in war reenactment LOL.These were his questions:1. What is the capital of Bulgaria? 2. Is a four-stroke outboard engine more efficient than a two-stroke? 3. What is the phone number of my U.S. representative? 4. What is the best-reviewed restaurant in Austin, Texas, this week?I wonder how my children would fare at this task? This should be a social experiment (or a high school classroom project). I am thinking about making this a family scavenger hunt /challenge project...it's crazy how reliant we are on the Internet and how much MORE information we have access to than we used to (in my own lifetime.) and how much we trust that information...This is an interesting read. I Recommend checking it out!

Examines different types of knowing, and how technology can help nurture, but not replace, them. Very clearly introduces and applies a number of philosophical concepts. Ends disappointingly, though. There are clearly implications here for personal and family conduct as well as public policy that are not full!y explored. A pleasure to read, and thought-provoking for IT professionals like myself.

More about epistemology than technology per se. Rather politically correct, but par for the course for mainstream 'academic-lite' books. Some interesting remarks on epistemology, but if you're interested in that, better to pick up 'Epistemology: A Beginner's Guide' (which is much better than the Very Short Introduction entry of the same). For the technology, read 'Data and Goliath' by Schneier.

Interesting book, worth a read in the current digital age. It gave me some insight about what it mean to live in a digital age.

An educated take on the limits of the internet. Everyone should read it.

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Perfect for the price

Every page was interesting and educational!

Lo pedí para incluirlo en mi marco teórico para mi tesis y de verdad tiene bastantes ideas interesante sobre la era digital en la que estamos viviendo. Realmente es bastante clara y sencilla del autor no debe suponer mayor problema si te encuentras en un nivel intermedio de inglés.

As a librarian, im very fond of this book; cause it documents that the internet doesnt make us all smarter, its the other way around: Most people just "download" information, they dont internalize it - the information dont stick in our memory, because it take work to make new information stick! And when we stumble over interesting information, the knowledge that we know where to find the information, does make us forget it 5 minutes later. I think every librarian in the world should read this book!

This book while presenting what could (could not) the internet learning do , it cautions us what we should not allow it do.

Un libro actual y ambicioso, bien escrito.