The semantic sphere 1

By Pierre Lévy

Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General, Human-computer interaction, Cognition, Metalanguage, Semantic Web, Information society, Ubiquitous computing, Human information processing

Description: "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"--