Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet

In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as.
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Understand that, and you understand the "world brain".

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I look forward to reading Stibel's new book, "Breakpoint" to find out about how things have advanced since 's "Wired for Thought". Kindle Edition Verified Purchase.

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Maybe because it was written a few years ago, the book does not surprise. If you read technology news there is nothing new here. The author also failed in his own stated goal: Maybe if that businessman has been living in a cave. The value, hence my three stars, lies in the references to brain philosophers.


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One person found this helpful. Jeff Stibel presents a clear, thought provoking premise that overlays brain evolution and biology with the birth and growth of the Internet. The analogies are very strong and if you are in business you must read this book. Because the evolution of the Internet will no doubt affect the strategy of your business over the next 10 years. Jeff makes the case that the Internet is following an evolutionary path so similar to the brain that he unlocks what no doubt will be a path to our connected future.

Business people will love this book! I really enjoyed this book. The writer does a fantastic job of weaving his many years of experience with internet ventures and brain study into something educational but easy and enjoyable to read. It's science and correlations that make you think about the world you live in and the web you interact with.

Reading the book made me feel like I was getting a sneak peek at the roadmap to where the web and its large companies Google, Facebook, Myspace will be headed in the years to come. The book touches on a wide range of subjects, and is written in a fluid style.

I finished it in a space of 6 hours and was very satisfied. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. Good for future Good for me Good for our future I am not read yet Why you border me,,, I can't read the book because of you.. With collaborative assistance from Erik Calonius and Peter Delgrosso, Jeffrey Stibel shares in this book what he has learned after stepping back far enough to see the Internet in its entirety. In fact, as he plains, "My conviction that the Internet is evolving into a brain has been the foundation of my business career" thus far and presumably there will be additional books and articles in which he provides new information and insights.

He suggests a metaphor when stating that "the Internet is a brain.

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So I will await further revelations before embracing the metaphor, meanwhile proceeding with a simile. After providing a brief history of the brain, Stibel then suggests that the Internet is really the combination of two innovations: Both solved huge problems, "but combining the two created new opportunities.

The Internet was the result We are in the early stages, of course, but look at the growth: For example, taken out of the context he creates for each: But it will get better and stronger with each crash. As I worked my way into Stibel's narrative, I began to suspect what was later confirmed by a re-reading of the passages I had highlighted: The only limits on what the Internet can become - and do -- are those that are self-imposed on the human mind's willingness and ability to imagine what was previously unthinkable.

I agree with Stibel that, if the mind is what the brain does, we must first understand what thinking is all about. It is provacative but routed in facts. I learned more about Internet businesses than any other book I have read and I did it almost by But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature.

Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet

The Internet is more Harvard Business Press Bolero Ozon. In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought , you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected computer networks: To leverage its power, you first need to understand how the Internet has evolved to take on similarities to the brain. Stibel first debunks common beliefs about the brain.

From a physical basis, he clears up the misperception that the brain is mainly grey matter [ citation needed ] it turned out to have more white matter.

From a biological basis, he explains that the brain uses nothing more than electricity and chemistry to create intelligence. He acknowledges that the Internet, the Web, and the intelligence of the Internet and the Web are in their infancy, at least from an evolutionary point of view, but says that they are growing fast. The book also criticizes the term artificial intelligence. Stibel claims that the word itself is misleading, causing people to associate A. The book's first section outlines the scientific basis for the development of the Internet as a brain. Stibel reviews the works of Daniel Dennett and James A.

Anderson , whom he calls his mentors.

The book's second section provides case studies to support and expand the first section's claims. Stibel outlines a theory for decision making on the web, using examples from Netflix , Amazon. He argues that the Internet has, and will continue to go through, fits of creative destruction , much like human memory succeeds because of its fallibility. The book then focuses on Internet search and the linguistic underpinnings of the web, using the development of Google by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a case study.