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100	1		_aBrown, John Seely
245	1	4	_aThe social life of information / _cJohn Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
260			_aBoston : _bHarvard Business School Press, _cc2000
300			_ax, 320 p. : _c22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index
520			_aFor years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything-from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more skeptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid help us to see through frenzied visions of the future to the real forces for change in society. They argue that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the "tunnel vision" that information-driven technologies breed. We've become so focused on where we think we ought to be-a place where technology empowers individuals and obliterates social organizations-that we often fail to see where we're really going and what's helping us get there. We need, they argue, to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part
650		0	_aInformation society _915110
650		0	_aInformation technology _xSocial aspects
650		7	_aInformation theory _2thema
650		7	_aBusiness & Management _2thema
650		7	_aImpact of science & technology on society _2thema
650		7	_aEthical & social aspects of IT _2thema
700	1		_aDuguid, Paul, _d1954-
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