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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Poundstone, William.     Subjects     Knowledge, Theory of.     Big data.     Information behavior.     Information society -- Social aspects.     Information society -- Economic aspects.     Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Poundstone, William.       by title:      Head in the cloud : ...       by call number:      306.42 P876h     Search the Web     Poundstone, William.     Knowledge, Theory of.     Big data.     Information behavior.     Information society -- Social aspects.     Information society -- Economic aspects.     Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.       MARC Display

Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / William Poundstone. by Poundstone, William. Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Call #: 306.42 P876h Subjects Knowledge, Theory of.   Big data.   Information behavior.   Information society -- Social aspects.   Information society -- Economic aspects.   Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780316256544 (hc.) Description:  x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index. Contents:  Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog. Summary:  "More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why learn facts at all? William Poundstone shows that many areas of knowledge correlate with the quality of our lives - wealth, health, and happiness - and even with politics and behavior. He examines what Americans know (and don't know) on topics ranging from quantum physics to pop culture. William Poundstone is the author of Rock Breaks Scissors: Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He has written for the Believer, the Economist, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Esquire, and Harper's. Visit his website, home.williampoundstone.net"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 306.42 P876h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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