The Internet of us: knowing more and understanding less in the age of big data

✍ Scribed by Michael P. Lynch

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promise to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.

We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia shelf in search of answers. We just open our browsers, type in a few keywords and wait for the information to come to us. Indeed, the Internet has revolutionized the way we learn and know, as well as how we interact with each other. And yet this explosion of technological innovation has also produced a curious paradox: even as we know more, we seem to understand less.

While a wealth of literature has been devoted to life with the Internet, the deep philosophical implications of this seismic shift have not been properly explored until now. Demonstrating that knowledge based on reason plays an essential role in society and that...