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Beautiful Particulars

How AI's Attention to the Smallest of Differences Is Reshaping Our Biggest Ideas

by David Weinberger ...

**A fresh and eye-opening new explanation of AI—and how its focus on specifics is changing our ideas about ourselves and our world.From a Harvard researcher, philosopher, entrepreneur, former comedy writer, and bestselling author.**Amid the clamor about AI, Beautiful Particulars poses a unique question: Not how does our use of AI change what we do, but how is the idea of AI already subtly yet ... Read more

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**A fresh and eye-opening new explanation of AI—and how its focus on specifics is changing our ideas about ourselves and our world.From a Harvard researcher, philosopher, entrepreneur, former comedy writer, and bestselling author.**Amid the clamor about AI, Beautiful Particulars poses a unique question: Not how does our use of AI change what we do, but how is the idea of AI already subtly yet
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Everyday Chaos

Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

by David Weinberger ...

Our approach to the future has been rooted in imagining what it might be and preparing for the eventuality that is to come. But no more. Now the future arrives all at once, and our strategies for dealing with it must change, too.Readers will learn about the core idea of interoperability and why it matters in a post-strategy world, and how it explains new techniques that seek to mine, rather than ... Read more

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Our approach to the future has been rooted in imagining what it might be and preparing for the eventuality that is to come. But no more. Now the future arrives all at once, and our strategies for dealing with it must change, too.Readers will learn about the core idea of interoperability and why it matters in a post-strategy world, and how it explains new techniques that seek to mine, rather than
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The Social Life of Information

Updated, with a New Preface

by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid ...

Understand the human place in a digital world.“Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future,” The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We’re now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever.The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and ... Read more

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Understand the human place in a digital world.“Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future,” The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We’re now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever.The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and
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The Year in Tech, 2021: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, David Weinberger, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Darrell K. Rigby, David Furlonger ...

Series series HBR Insights Series
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.From 5G networks to biometric marketing and from augmented reality to AI wearables, new technologies are reshaping business on the factory floor and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?The Year in ... Read more

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A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.From 5G networks to biometric marketing and from augmented reality to AI wearables, new technologies are reshaping business on the factory floor and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?The Year in
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Too Big to Know

Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

by David Weinberger ...

"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, ForbesWith the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. ... Read more

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"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, ForbesWith the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all.
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Everything Is Miscellaneous

The Power of the New Digital Disorder

by David Weinberger ...

A provocative exploration of how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But the ongoing shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place—the physical world demanded it—but now ... Read more

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A provocative exploration of how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But the ongoing shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place—the physical world demanded it—but now
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined

A Unified Theory Of The Web

by David Weinberger ...

The Web has not been hyped enough. That's the startling thesis of this one-of-a-kind book that's sure to become a classic work of social commentary. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the new medium of the Web is not only altering social institutions such as business and government but, more important, is transforming bedrock concepts of our ... Read more

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The Web has not been hyped enough. That's the startling thesis of this one-of-a-kind book that's sure to become a classic work of social commentary. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the new medium of the Web is not only altering social institutions such as business and government but, more important, is transforming bedrock concepts of our
... Read more
Commonplace Commitments

Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell

by Peter S. Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, Mark D. Moorman, Kenneth L. Anderson, Scott D. Churchill, Vincent M. Colapietro, Joseph P. Fell, Richard Fleming0, Jeff Malpas1, Dennis Schmidt2, Gary Steiner3, Katie Terezakis4, Jeff Turner5, David Weinberger6 ...

Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of thought and ... Read more

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Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of thought and
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The Cluetrain Manifesto (10th Anniversary Edition)

by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Jake McKee, J. P. Rangaswami, Dan Gillmor ...

The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic ... Read more

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The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic
... Read more
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Everyday Chaos

Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility

by David Weinberger ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

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7 hours 53 min

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing--and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, ... Read more

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Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing--and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for,
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Permission Marketing

Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

by Seth Godin ...

Series series A Gift for Marketers
The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"—the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on ... Read more

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The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"—the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on
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Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...

Series series One World Essentials
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the
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