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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Loses in Translation, But Opening Act for a Genius
Pierre Levy writes in French and it gets translated into English. I have met him and studied his work and consider him one of the top minds in what is emeerging out of cyberculture, the World Brain. His Information Economy Meta Language has enormous potential See also: Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace Becoming...
Published on November 30, 2007 by Robert D. Steele
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Overly optimistic technoevangelism
Levy's book is a perfect example of the kind of technoevangelism that caused the dotcom crash. He seems to accept - at face value - every prognostication tossed out by Wired in the early 1990s. The scholarship is weak and overreaches, and the perspective he takes seems to deny the possibility that the digital will constrain even as it affords - something made very clear...
Published on April 4, 2007 by Christopher Berg
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Loses in Translation, But Opening Act for a Genius,
By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Cyberculture (Electronic Mediations) (Paperback)
Pierre Levy writes in French and it gets translated into English. I have met him and studied his work and consider him one of the top minds in what is emeerging out of cyberculture, the World Brain. His Information Economy Meta Language has enormous potential
See also: Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Overly optimistic technoevangelism,
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This review is from: Cyberculture (Electronic Mediations) (Paperback)
Levy's book is a perfect example of the kind of technoevangelism that caused the dotcom crash. He seems to accept - at face value - every prognostication tossed out by Wired in the early 1990s. The scholarship is weak and overreaches, and the perspective he takes seems to deny the possibility that the digital will constrain even as it affords - something made very clear in the work of Lawrence Lessig.
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Cyberculture (Electronic Mediations) by Pierre Levy (Paperback - October 5, 2001)
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