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How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter

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How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter

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About This Book

Search is as old as language. We've always needed to find something in the jumble of human creation. The first web was nothing more than passing verbal histories down the generations so others could find and remember how not to get eaten; the first search used the power of written language to build simple indexes in printed books, leading to the Dewey Decimal system and reverse indices in more modern times. Then digital happened. Besides having profound societal impacts, it also made the act of searching almost impossibly complex for both engines and searchers. Information isn't just words; it is pictures, videos, thoughts tagged with geocode data, routes, physical world data, and, increasingly, the machines themselves reporting their condition and listening to others'. Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter holds up a mirror to our time to see if search can keep up. Author Stefan Weitz explores the idea of access to help readers understand how we are inventing new ways to search and access data through devices in more places and with more capabilities. We are at the cusp of imbuing our generation with superpowers, but only if we fundamentally rethink what search is, how people can use it, and what we should demand of it. "Search: How The Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter" is the first title from GreenHouse Collection. Created by the founders of Insight Labs, the world's first philanthropic think tank, GreenHouse Collection features books that encourage deeper exploration and inquiry to inform new models for social good.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781351860871
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Where Is My Flying Car?
  9. 1 What Search Will See
  10. 2 How Search Will Act
  11. 3 What Search Will Do
  12. 4 What Search Will Be
  13. 5 What Search Will Bring Us
  14. 6 What Holds Search Back: The Technology
  15. 7 What Holds Search Back: The Business
  16. 8 A Time to Believe
  17. Conclusion: Searching the Future
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. About the Author