Name: Knowing What we Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (en Inglés)
SKU: 54466037
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Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780063142886

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Knowing What we Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

Simon Winchester

Editorial

Harper

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

432

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780063142886

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Obras de consulta
Historia general y del mundo
Historia social y cultural

Knowing What we Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (en Inglés)

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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what is there left for our brains to do? At a time when we seem to be stripping all value from the idea of knowing things--no need for math, no need for map-reading, no need for memorization--are we risking our ability to think? As we empty our minds, will we one day be incapable of thoughtfulness? Addressing these questions, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography, and broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusion--from the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google, and Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundanaeum, the collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp basement in northern Belgium. Studded with strange and fascinating details, Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the human mind. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom? Does Rene Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum--"I think therefore I am," the foundation for human knowledge widely accepted since the Enlightenment--still hold? And what will the world be like if no one in it is wise?

Simon Winchester

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Simon Winchester. La biografía de este popular escritor, periodista y locutor británico está repleta de anécdotas: en 1977, The Guardian le designó como corresponsal extranjero en Nueva Delhi y fue en coche desde Oxford. Mientras cubría para The Sunday Times la ocupación de las Malvinas en 1982, fue secuestrado. Ha dedicado su vida a escribir libros divulgativos, entre los que destaca The Professor and the Madman. Por sus servicios al periodismo y la literatura fue nombrado oficial de la Orden del Imperio Británico.

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