The semantic sphere 1 computation, cognition and information economy
"The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power. How can we exploit this medium to augment our personal and social cognitive processes at the service of human development? Combining a deep knowledge of humaniti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
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2011
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power. How can we exploit this medium to augment our personal and social cognitive processes at the service of human development? Combining a deep knowledge of humanities and social sciences as well as a real familiarity with computer science issues, this book explains the collaborative construction of a global hypercortex coordinated by a computable metalanguage. By recognizing fully the symbolic and social nature of human cognition, we could transform our current opaque global brain into a reflexive collective intelligence"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 318 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781118601518 9781118601426 1118601475 9781118601471 1118601424 |