Weinberger on Everything is Miscellaneous and the Wonderful World of Digital Information
EconTalk Archives, 2007
English - June 18, 2007 11:30 - 1 hour - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsCourses Education Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Author David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Institute for Internet and Society, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Topics include the differences between how we organize and think about physical and digital information, the power of the internet to let us consume information in unique and customized ways and the implications for retailing, politics and education.