Virtual unreality : just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? / Charles Seife.
2014
ZA4201 .S44 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Virtual unreality : just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? / Charles Seife.
Author
Seife, Charles, author.
ISBN
9780670026081 hardcover
0670026085 hardcover
0670026085 hardcover
Published
New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
Language
English
Description
vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
ZA4201 .S44 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
025.04
Summary
Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.
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Table of Contents
Catching the stupid bug
Appeal to authority
An army of one
Telling fake people from real
The loneliness of the interconnected
Copy, right?
Scarcity
All hat, no cattle
White noise and the Red Queen
Artificial unintelligence
Make money fast
Companies : private, public, and shady
This is your brain
Living in the raw.
Appeal to authority
An army of one
Telling fake people from real
The loneliness of the interconnected
Copy, right?
Scarcity
All hat, no cattle
White noise and the Red Queen
Artificial unintelligence
Make money fast
Companies : private, public, and shady
This is your brain
Living in the raw.