Technologies of Knowing

A Proposal for the Human Sciences

John Willinsky

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Beacon Press
15 February 2000

Philosophy of science; Ethical & social aspects of computing

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In this age of ever more powerful computers, our ability to collect and

spread knowledge is growing at an exponential rate. Far from liberating

humanity, our ""information exasperation"", as John Willinsky describes it

in this pathbreaking book, has made our ability to reach conclusions

about the world around us all the more difficult. With little order to

guide us through the mountains of new information in the Internet, the

public, as well the sciences that have amassed such knowledge, has

little confidence in its potential to change the world for the better.

For example, the overload of conflicting new findings in breast cancer

research has so paralyzed progress that some researchers now recommend

that women stop examining themselves to avoid the psychological burden

of monthly searches for this deadly disease.

While some critics have

condemned computers and the Internet for putting us in this age of

overflow and still others have praised them for their own sake,

Willinsky takes a middle ground. Using the fictitious Automata Data

Corporation as the vehicle for an ingenious thought experiment, he plays

out what would happen if all information collected from social science

research were centralized, catalogued, and processed by one company

serving the public interest. Willinsky describes in great detail how

such an entity could work to fulfill the promises of the human sciences

and technology.

Sure to stir debate, Technologies of Knowing

offers a starting point from which to rethink our understanding of our

emerging ""wired"" world and adds new insight into how to make the uses of

knowledge more democratic.

By: John Willinsky
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780807061077
ISBN 10: 0807061077
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 February 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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