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082 0 4 _a306.420973
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100 1 _aPoundstone, William,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHead in the cloud :
_bthe power of knowledge in the age of Google /
_cWilliam Poundstone.
264 1 _aLondon
_bOneworld Publications,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a306 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog.
520 _aLooks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.
650 0 _aKnowledge, Theory of.
650 0 _aBig data.
650 0 _aInformation behavior.
650 7 _aBig data.
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650 7 _aInformation behavior.
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650 7 _aKnowledge, Theory of.
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