Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Lévy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advancement.Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, Lévy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, Collective Intelligence is a visionary work.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. vii)
• Prologue: The Nomad Planet (p. xix)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• I Engineering the Social Bond (p. 21)
• 1 The Just (p. 23)
• 2 Human Qualities (p. 31)
• 3 From the Molar to the Molecular (p. 39)
• 4 The Dynamics of Intelligent Cities (p. 57)
• 5 Choreography of Angelic Bodies (p. 91)
• 6 The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace (p. 117)
• II (p. 129)
• 7 The Four Spaces (p. 131)
• 8 Anthropological Space (p. 143)
• 9 Identity (p. 151)
• 10 Semiotics (p. 163)
• 11 Figures of Space and Time (p. 173)
• 12 Navigational Instruments (p. 185)
• 13 Objects of Knowledge (p. 195)
• 14 Epistemologies (p. 209)
• 15 The Relationship Between the Spaces Toward a Political Philosophy (p. 225)
• Epilogue: Voyage to Knossos (p. 245)
• Notes (p. 257)
• Index (p. 269)