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Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace (Helix Books) Paperback – December 10, 1999

by Pierre Levy (Author), Robert Bononno (Translator)
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The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Lévy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advancement.Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, Lévy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, Collective Intelligence is a visionary work.
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    December 10, 1999
  4. Dimensions
    5 x 0.71 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0738202614
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0738202617
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    1340L
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  • Ansc
    5.0 out of 5 stars Visionary work
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2013
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    Levy is a visionary writer who foresaw many of the current developments in politics, economics and humanity in general in this powerful work. Incredibly it was written years ago when the full impact of the internet was not as easily visible as today.
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  • Dan Wallace
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiring Vision
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2009
    Collective Intelligence was published in 1997, just as the Internet was gaining traction in the popular imagination. Reading this book, together with Neuromancer, made me realize that something monumental was afoot. Pierre Levy inspired me with this kind, poetic and visionary book.

    With cyberspace Levy says, " Movement no longer means moving point to point on the globe, but crossing universes of problems, lived worlds, landscapes of meaning." Later he says, "The prosperity of a nation, geographical region, business, or individual depends on their ability to navigate the knowledge space. Building the knowledge space will mean acquiring the institutional, technical, and conceptual instruments needed to make information navigable, so that each of us is able to orient ourselves and recognize others on the basis of mutual interested, abilities, projects, means, and the identities within this new space." This process has made great strides since 1997, but I have heard it said that we are still on page one of the history of the Internet.

    Levy explains how totalitarianism fails because it cannot not harness collective intelligence. But he cites the mass media focus on spectacle as a hindrance to capitalist society, and believes that cyberspace would help people filter their information and navigate knowledge. He said, "In the society of the spectacle, thought is buried in the world of media and advertising." As a solution, he sees reciprocal apprenticeship, breaking down previous social hierarchies. To help bind us together, Levy also sees the importance of signs, symbols and stories in cyberspace.

    A deep and generous philosophy pervades this book. He says, "The just man includes, he integrates, he repairs the social fabric." And Levy says the just do not seek power, but the strength to know, think, imagine and do. He further states, " The good is opposed to evil; it is exclusionary. The best, however, includes evil since, logically equivalent to the lesser evil, it is satisfied with minimizing it."

    Levy's big idea is a society guided by collective intelligence, direct democracy, and distributed power. He writes, "Cyberspace could become the most perfectly integrated medium within a community for problem analysis, group discussion, the development of an awareness of complex processes, collective decision-making, and evaluation." Levy makes no claim to how soon this could happen, and he recognizes the difficulties, but this book offers a vision. You can see it starting to happen through Wikipedia, blogs, social media, and boundaryless corporations. I hope his vision comes true. This is a wonderful book.

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  • Hardi
    4.0 out of 5 stars For school
    Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013
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    Bought it for school and used it for a course, came to me in time for assignments and what I needed it for...
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  • Tom Gray
    5.0 out of 5 stars Theology as the Origin and Goal of the Internet
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2000
    If you want an interesting book, I'd recommend 'Collective Intelligence' by Pierre Levy. This book examines the social impact of Internet technology and proposes a set of ideals that should be used to guide a society using it. Levy tries to show how his set of ideals would obtain the most benefits from society from this technology. An interesting part of the book occurs when Levy compares the mode of live in an Internet society with that derived from Catholic ideals. He recounts mediaeval Catholic philosophy on the means by which God's insight creates the world. God exists by hid contemplation his own existence since he is the essence of all things and out of this contemplation springs angels which can contemplate their own existence but need other things to exist. There are 10 ranks of angels each created either by God's or the next higher angel rank's contemplation of themselves. The contemplation of the lowest rank of angels creates our world.
    The nub of this is that the world is top down. The ideal is at the pyramid of existence and goodness derives its meaning from the top. Levy contrasts this with the new conception of the Internet. The lowest rank which is our world can create a new world above it. In our case, it is the lowest level of connectivity of the Internet. This new world is good in so far as it enables the inhabitants of our world to flourish. The lowest levels in cyberspace can create higher levels of existence with no limits on the number of levels which corresponds to the ranks of angels. Goodness flows up these levels from the real world in direct contrast to Catholic theology. Another view on this can be found in, 'The Religion of Technology' by David F. Noble. This book traces the origin of the Internet and the attitudes of its developers to Protestant theology. Instead of goodness entering the world through God's omnipotence, Protestants believe that they are required to build God's kingdom in this world. The drive in northern Europe for technological enhancements to life derives from this.
    These two books support each other. Levy offers this Internet world as an ideal and contrasts it with the Catholic ideal. Noble examines it as an historical process and notes its derivation from Protestantism.
    These are two very interesting books.
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  • H. M. Gladney
    1.0 out of 5 stars Pseudoscience
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2013
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    The primary pattern of this book is a subjective selection of related phenomena, entities, or events and to assert, without supporting evidence, that this is part of a widely useful and objective pattern, i.e., a pattern shared by many observers and supporting interpolation/extrapolation of many more instances that are part of the same objective pattern. Having asserted such a selection, the author describes it with pretentious vocabulary--sentences full of words that are, at best, ill-understood by readers--that allegedly convey meaningful patterns.

    From the perspective of a scientist and engineer, it is unalloyed hogwash!
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  • Harri
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2013
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    Levy has a truly brilliant mind, this book will make you think of things you've never thought of. A great read
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