The new open society.(Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge)(The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom)(Book review)
American Prospect, The, November, 2006 by Purdy, Jedediah
INFOTOPIA: HOW MANY MINDS PRODUCE KNOWLEDGE BY CASS SUNSTEIN Oxford University Press, 288 pages, $25.00
THE WEALTH OF NETWORKS: HOW SOCIAL PRODUCTION TRANSFORMS MARKETS AND FREEDOM BY YOCHAI BENKLER Yale University Press, 520 pages, $40.00
INTERNET UTOPIANISM CAN SEEM so 1998. The future was silicon in the late Clinton years, when government was flatlining in petty scandal and technology stocks seemed to rise exponentially. Not only was anything possible: If you believed the mavens of Wired magazine and assorted other cyber-prophets, pretty much anything was inevitable. ...
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