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The Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

James Burke (Autor)
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  • Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
  • Verlag: Simon & Schuster; Auflage: New edition (22. Juni 2000)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0684859351
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684859354
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,6 x 14,2 x 1,7 cm
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  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.145.729 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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How is vivisection related to Stonehenge? It might take a few leaps of history, but you'll find the answer in The Knowledge Web, another of science historian James Burke's compelling collections of circular narratives that have informed and inspired astute readers for years. Best known for his outstanding documentary series Connections, Burke has a genius for unraveling complex threads of history and sharing with us the remarkable coincidences and contingencies that built our modern world. In The Knowledge Web he shows us how the rapid flow of information engenders greater possibilities for the kinds of chance meetings that drive progress.

Burke uses a very neat trick that both demonstrates the potential of hypertext and makes a more pleasurable reading experience. When mentioning certain key figures or events, he includes a footnote that points the reader not to the bottom of the page or the end of the book, but to another point in the text where the figure or event comes into play again. Many other writers would find this impossible to pull off, but Burke's style is perfectly suited for these jumps; if anything, his major theme of interconnectedness is driven home in a fresh new way. Whether or not you're a fan of Burke's unique style, The Knowledge Web will delight and amaze you with its visions of the delicacy of history and the many paths the past must take to reach the future. --Rob Lightner -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Burke, familiar to PBS watchers from series like Connections, is back, practicing what he preached in The Axemaker's Gift (1995). The Knowledge Web is Burke's effort to replicate, in linear form, the sort of "webbed" knowledge available to Internet surfers. Its 20 chapters trace often serendipitous developments of particular products or scientific discoveries: the sort of narratives Burke watchers have seen many times. In this book, however, the author makes intersections explicit: a person--say, Cyrus Field or Annie Besant--or idea that appears several times in the book is a "gateway," and each reference is marked with the other places in the book where the same person or idea comes up again. A curious reader who wants to explore the gateway can stop reading about the telegraph and switch to a chapter on warships or instant coffee. With "twenty different journeys across the great web of change" and 142 gateways, Burke offers readers "at least 142 different ways" to read his book. Full of useful information and an interesting experiment in "webbed" knowledge. Mary Carroll -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This book was a sorry disappointment. I will preface my further remarks by saying that I am a huge fan of Mr. Burke's television productions, and (ironically) I actually enjoyed the book a great deal, but for mostly all the wrong reasons.

The fact is that the book does not deal with what is alluded to by the title, the jacket copy, or the author's introduction. Unfortunately, those were the only elements that I scanned when looking over the book in the store (and then buying it online ;-). The marketting blurb on the cover says "From electronic agents to Stonehenge and back...". Well, there was a very small bit about electronic agents and believe it or not, Stonehenge wasn't mentioned once throughout the entire book. Mr. Burke was not well served here by his market driven editors.

The only reason I still enjoyed the book is that I love both history and technology, and that's the terrain through which this addled account rambles. Regrettably, this book was more like an extended outpouring of jumbled, loosely 'connected' trivia from a hyper-loquacious Alzheimer's patient, than anything truly salient or purposeful. There was absolutely no discernible point to the narrative. The author's attempt to put the work into some kind of prosaic hyperlink format was a bit embarrassing as well. Lastly, the book ended abruptly and arbitrarily, almost as if Mr. Burke's nurse had come in and said "That's all for today. It's time for Mr. Burke's evening feeding. Maybe you can come back tomorrow." I hope not.

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Stimulates Your Mind 28. Mai 2000
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This is almost like a technological "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The author almost does a stream of consciousness, and does repeat himself at least three or four times through the 262 page book. It is a journey that reminds me of Andy Grove's book on change, as you see how inventions, technology, greatly influenced history and the advance of our knowledge. Most importantly, it shows how new things can make people a lot of money, those that don't change, lose a lot of money, and is fascinating---although the connections of events wanders from century to century and subject to subject. I thought this was not only fascinating, but there are many levels in the writing just as there are in James Joyce's fiction. This book is pure fact, however.
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Disappointing 16. Juli 1999
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Burke writes well, but this book seems little more than a historical account of ideas and inventions. Of course, the reader could use the heavy cross-referencing to read this book in many different ways (ie taking different paths through the book) but the prospect doesn't excite me as much as it appeared to excite the author.

While the book purports to show the linkages between ideas and inventions, too often an idea came way out of left field with no apparent connection to the current stream of thought or historical characters.

I had really hoped for something a little more focussed on the evolution and use of knowledge per se rather than an account of how things came about, which can be read in any of a dozen other books.

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