Social Life of Information

"[This book] Dumpster-dives into the muck of failed predictions to show why the future isn't so likely to just let go of the past. In a measured series of eight essays, authors John Seely Brown, Xerox's chief scientist and director of the company's legendary research facility Xerox PARC, and Paul Duguid, a historical and social theorist at the University of California at Berkeley, gently deflate the most extreme claims of 'the blinkered euphoria of the infoenthusiasts,' as they term technology boosters....[I]t manages to puncture much of the hype around where technology is taking us, without making any bold pronouncements about the death of punditry."Brown, John Seely is the author of 'Social Life of Information', published 2002 under ISBN 9781578517084 and ISBN 1578517087.