Richard Saul Wurman ; with additional research & writing by Loring Leifer & David Sume ; Karen Whitehouse, editor ; Michael J. Nolan, information designer
Information anxiety in the Internet age -- The business of understanding -- Land mines in the understanding field -- An age of connections: integrated messages -- The structure of conversation -- Talk is deep -- There is always a question -- Finding things -- Beyond personalities -- Empowerment: the word of the new century -- Instructions: the driver of conversation -- Talking on the job: seeing instructions in the context of work -- Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure -- Learning is remembering what you're interested in -- You only learn things relative to something you understand -- Hailing, failing, and still sailing -- Designing your life
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"A decade after the publication of what has become a cult guidebook to understanding, Richard Saul Wurman, in this expanded & updated volume, gives clarity to confusion with new maps for navigating through a stream of bytes which leave us inundated with data but starved for the tools & patterns that give them meaning. In reality there has not been an information explosion, but rather an explosion of non-information, or stuff that simply doesn't inform."--Jacket