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Head in the Cloud

Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are so Easy to Look Up

Erschienen am 01.07.2016
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ISBN/EAN: 9780316395069
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 340
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Beschreibung

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René Descartes was. Most don't know what Frank Lloyd Wright did for living. But knowledge is still import - even when facts are so easy to look up. In his new book William Poundstone uses Big Data survey technology to examine how knowledge relates to wealth, health, politics, and behavior and identifies the types of knowledge that still matter (and those that don't). The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.