If you’ve heard of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book The Black Swan then you’ve heard the story. Before Australia was discovered it was thought that all swans were white and then a black swan was not only spotted in Australia but revealed to be the norm in that portion of the globe. This is of course the simplified version of the premise of Taleb’s book. You see “black swan events” have three main attributes they are “unpredictability, consequences, and retrospective explainability” (Taleb 164). Of course the consequences for a true black swan event need to be much greater than those involved with the discovery of a different hue of swan. Black swan events as exemplified in the book can range from the invention of the Internet, the stock market crash of 1987 (which actually catapulted Taleb to his current status), to September 11th. These events came out of nowhere and had a huge impact on society and after the fact their occurrence was explained in a multitude of ways.
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Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, jumps all over the place for the entirety, almost in a “miscellaneous” way, author David Weinberger brings his point together nicely in the end. Weinberger starts his discussion off with a topic that is all around us; information and how it is sorted.
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7 Comments » Posted on September 7th, 2007 by Kevin Donlan
Based on a friend of mine who will be posting adolescent lit book reviews on her future web site, I have jumped-the-gun and dropped shipped lots of fantastic books to my team to get them to learn more about what we do at AHLLC as well as to write cool book reviews for this blog.
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2 Comments » Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
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