The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger
Recommended by Tyler Cowen
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Nonfiction.
Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about [the] secondgeneration Web.Los Angeles TimesBusiness visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical worldin which everything has a placeare upended. In the digital world, everything has its places...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Nonfiction.
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Tyler Cowen
“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 booklike 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.”
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