Head in the cloud : dispatches from a post-fact world
Poundstone, William2017
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What's the point of knowing anything when facts are so easy to look up? Just reach for your computer, tablet or mobile and ask the sky. We're living in the golden age of rational ignorance where more people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was and most of us can't name the largest ocean on the planet. Yet the latest research indicates that the better informed are healthier, happier and often dramatically wealthier. William Poundstone conducts a hilarious and humbling investigation into the true worth of knowledge. What does it tell you, for example, when those who can pinpoint a country on a map are less likely to favour invading it?
Main title:
Head in the cloud : dispatches from a post-fact world / William Poundstone.
Author:
Poundstone, William, author
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2017.
Collation:
306 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781786071156 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
303.4833303.483303.4833 POU
Language:
English
BRN:
1108510