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The Social Life of Information is a 2000 book by John Seely Brown (the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director of Xerox PARC) and Paul Duguid (Adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information), which discusses recently developed practices in the transmission of information in social and business contexts.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and earnest.
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- Author
- John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Review Press, Harvard Business School Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781578517084
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“The Social Life of Information began with the image of a car whose driver was frighteningly unaware of the car's surroundings.”
visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, previously an engineer
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