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The Social Life of Information
John Seely Brown
Argues that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the 'tunnel vision' that information-driven technologies breed. This book explains how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep.
336 pages, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 1, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780875847627 |
| Publishers | Harvard Business Review Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 151 × 218 × 31 mm · 526 g |
| Language | English |
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