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Virtual unreality, just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?, Charles Seife

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Virtual unreality, just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?, Charles Seife
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Virtual unreality
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
871534390
Responsibility statement
Charles Seife
Sub title
just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?
Summary
Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Catching the stupid bug -- Appeal to authority -- An army of one -- Telling fake people from real -- The loneliness of the interconnected -- Copy, right? -- Scarcity -- All hat, no cattle -- White noise and the Red Queen -- Artificial unintelligence -- Make money fast -- Companies : private, public, and shady -- This is your brain -- Living in the raw
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