Everyone Knows Everything: The Rise of Wikiworld and the Democratization of Knowledge

In this fascinating look at mass collaboration on the Internet, Marshall Poe takes us on an incredible trip that begins with the origins of human society and ends with the emergence of "WikiWorld," the universal sphere in which billions of people create, trade, and transform all the information there is. According to Poe, the collaborative instincts driving Web phenomena such as Wikipedia, MySpace, and YouTube are ancient, but they have been transformed by the democratizing technology and culture of the Internet. The Web liberated the innate human impulse to "lend a hand" and to "pitch in" for the first time in history. The result has been a collaborative explosion that is transforming life, sex, business, politics, religion, and science. Poe offers the first in-depth description and explanation of this strange, new online world of working, playing, and thinking together.Poe, Marshall is the author of 'Everyone Knows Everything: The Rise of Wikiworld and the Democratization of Knowledge', published 2011 under ISBN 9780385522625 and ISBN 0385522622.