TY - BOOK AU - Lévy,Pierre TI - The semantic sphere 1: computation, cognition, and information economy SN - 9781848212510 (hardback) AV - TK5105.88815 .L485 2011 U1 - 025.0427 LEV/Sem 23 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Wiley and Sons KW - Semantic Web KW - Information society KW - Human information processing KW - Metalanguage KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General KW - bisacsh 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"-- ER -