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.
| ISBN: | 9781848212510 |
| Publication date: | 23rd September 2011 |
| Author: | Pierre Lévy |
| Publisher: | Wiley-ISTE an imprint of Wiley |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 381 pages |
| Genres: |
Electronics and communications engineering |