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The Social Life of Information
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The Social Life of Information (2000) (edit title/settings)

by John Seely Brown (Author), Paul Duguid (Author) (edit contributors)

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All New Preface by the Authors For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate everything-from supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and daunted by the dot com crash,... read more

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IT NOW SEEMS a curiously innocent time, though not that long ago, when the lack of information appeared to be one of society's fundamental problems.

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Preface: Looking Around

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Tunneling Ahead

1. Limits to Information

2. Agents and Angels

3. Home Alone

4. Practice Makes Process

5. Learning - in Theory and in Practice

6. Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge

7. Reading the Background

8. Re-education

Afterword: Beyond Information

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  1. John Seely Brown (Author)
  2. Paul Duguid (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0875847625
Page Count: 336

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