[Download pdf] Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up






 | #1005611 in Books |  William Poundstone |  2016-07-19 |  2016-07-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.00 x5.75l,.0 | File Name: 0316256544 | 352 pages

 | Head in the Cloud Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up


||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Poundstone details a great deal of survey data about general knowledge and things ...|By ARG|Interesting book, but not quite what I expected from it. Poundstone details a great deal of survey data about general knowledge and things that correlates with. The survey results are fascinating and I even sought out the full studies for more detail. As for the meat of why it matte| |"True fact: People who read Poundstone's extraordinary books are smarter (and happier) than people who don't."|―Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception|

"This breezy, pop-research overview of the decline of basic kn

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all?

Bestselling author William Poundstone confronts t...


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