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Infotopia - Cass R. Sunstein

Infotopia

How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518928-5 (ISBN)
CHF 54,55 inkl. MwSt
How can we ensure that the accurate information emerges and is heeded? This book develops an optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives.
The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? Cass R. Sunstein here develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives. New ways, many Internet-based, to share and aggregate information--including wikis, open-source software, and prediction markets--are helping companies, schools, governments, and individuals not only to acquire, but also to create, ever-growing bodies of accurate knowledge without succumbing to the dangers of a hive-mind mentality. In a world where opinion and anecdote increasingly compete on equal footing with hard evidence, the on-line effort of many minds coming together could provide the best path to infotopia.

Cass R. Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, a contributing editor at the New Republic and the American Prospect, and a frequent contributor as well to such publications as the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the recipient of the Henderson Prize and the Goldsmith Book Prize; his many books include Radicals in Robes, Republic.com, Why Societies Need Dissent, and Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Introduction: Dreams and Nightmares
1: The (Occasional) Power of Numbers
2: The Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups
3: Four Big Problems
4: Money, Prices, and Prediction Markets
5: Many Working Minds: Wikis, Open Source Software, and Blogs
6: Implications and Reforms
Conclusion--Realizing Promises
Appendix: Prediction Markets
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.9.2006
Zusatzinfo 1 halftone, 1 line illus.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 146 x 221 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-19-518928-0 / 0195189280
ISBN-13 978-0-19-518928-5 / 9780195189285
Zustand Neuware
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