Wired For Thought, Jeffrey Stibel
Wired For Thought, Jeffrey Stibel
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Wired For Thought
How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet

Author: Jeffrey Stibel

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/20/2009


Synopsis

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: it's the first real replication of the human brain outside the human body.

To leverage its power, you first need to understand how the Internet has evolved to take on similarities to the brain. This engaging and provocative book provides the answer. Stibel lays out:

-How networks have changed and what that implies for how people connect and form communities

-What the Internet-and online business opportunities-will look like in the future

-What the next stage of artificial intelligence will be and what opportunities it will present for businesses

Stibel shows how exceptional companies are using their understanding of the Internet's brainlike powers to create competitive advantage-such as building more effective Web sites, predicting consumer behavior, leveraging social media, and creating a collective consciousness.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam

Spent some time on the Wired for Thought website before buying the book. It is a interesting and provocative topic. Stibel basically proposes the theory that the Internet is a brain. Frankly, I was a bit taken back but when I saw that his background was very respectable (CEO of a public company and......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Interesting but a little out there. Stibel's premise is that the Internet is not like a brain, it is a brain, one that is rapidly approaching the complexity of a human brain. I'm on board with that, especially the idea of the brain as a sophisticated machine for analysis and prediction. However, I'm......more

Goodreads review by Mender

This book has one premise: The internet is a brain. Not like a brain, it actually is one, it looks like one and it learns like one and it acts like one and it will eventually reach a point where it starts trimming its neurons and getting smaller like one. Got that? Oh good. You just saved yourself 19......more

Goodreads review by Tomo

It's a wonderfully written and thought-provoking book that captured my interest from the first page. I highly recommend this book even if you have no interest or knowledge on brain sciences. His new book ([URL not allowed]) coming out 7/23/2013 is similarly fascinating and ful......more