Collective Intelligence or Software Testing

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

Author: Pierre Levy

The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Lévy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind’s advancement.Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, Lévy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, Collective Intelligence is a visionary work.

Table of Contents:

	Prologue: The Nomad Planet
	Introduction	1
1	The Just: The Ethics of Collective Intelligence	23
2	Human Qualities: The Economy of Collective Intelligence	31
3	From the Molar to the Molecular: The Technology of Collective Intelligence	39
4	The Dynamics of Intelligent Cities: A Manifesto for Molecular Politics	57
5	Choreography of Angelic Bodies: The Atheology of Collective Intelligence	91
6	The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace: The Aesthetics of Collective Intelligence	117
7	The Four Spaces	131
8	Anthropological Space	143
9	Identity	151
10	Semiotics	163
11	Figures of Space and Time	173
12	Navigational Instruments	185
13	Objects of Knowledge	195
14	Epistemologies	209
15	The Relationship between the Spaces: Toward a Political Philosophy	225
	Epilogue: Voyage to Knossos	245
	Notes	257
	Index	269

See also: Macroeconomia

Software Testing: A Craftman's Approach

Author: Paul C Jorgensen

A bestseller in its first two editions, Software Testing: A Craftsman's Approach, Third Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to highlight issues such as how Agile and XP development environments have radically changed the role of software testers by making testing integral to every phase of the development process. Coverage also includes model-based and test-driven development, reexamination of all-pairs testing, and explanation of the four contexts of software testing. The author provides new downloadable programs that demonstrate white-box, black-box and other fundamental types testing. This text continues to serve as a valuable reference for software testers, developers, and engineers.