TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy,Pierre
TI  - The semantic sphere 1: computation, cognition, and information economy 
SN  - 9781848212510 (hbk.)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - ISTE
KW  - Semantic Web
KW  - Information society
KW  - Human information processing
KW  - Metalanguage
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - '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'--
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