I am reading Thomas Homer-Dixon's first book called The Ingenuity Gap. It has turned out to be just as compelling as his newest one : "The Upside of Down" I just came across a quote that I see as very relevant. (To me at least, and likely many others the industry I work in): "that for every contribution to the supply of ingenuity we gain from a new link between people or between ideas, we may lose ingenuity because of the complexity, pressure, and pace of our information glutted world. In the end, we may be inexorably exchanging the peace and quiet needed to generate high-quality ingenuity for the adrenaline charged hyperactivity produced by waves of low-quality data." This is a very good assessment of the blogosphere and social networking today. The book was published in the year 2000.
1 year ago by Tony M.
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