Everyday Chaos (original) (raw)

Introduction: Everything All at Once

Chapter 1: The Evolution of Prediction

Coda: The Kingdom of the Normal

Chapter 2: Inexplicable Models

Coda: Optimization over Explanation

Chapter 3: Beyond Preparation: Unanticipation

Coda: Libraries of Anticipation

Chapter 4: Beyond Causality: Interoperability

Coda: Signs and Causes

Chapter 5: Strategy and Possibility

Coda: Strategic Obscurity

Chapter 6: Progress and Creativity

Coda: What We Learn from Things

Chapter 7: Make. More. Meaning.

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From the earliest days of the Web, David Weinberger has been a pioneering thought leader about the Internet’s effect on our lives, on our businesses, and most of all, on our ideas. He has contributed in a range of fields, from marketing to libraries to politics to journalism and more.

He has contributed in a remarkably wide range of ways as well: through books that explore the meaning of our new technology; as a writer for publications from Wired and Scientific American to Harvard Business Review and even TV Guide; as an acclaimed keynote speaker around the world; a strategic marketing vice president and consultant; a teacher; an Internet adviser to presidential campaigns; an early social-networking entrepreneur; a strategic marketing consultant and VP; the codirector of the groundbreaking Harvard Library Innovation Lab; a writer-in-residence at a Google AI lab; a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; a fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department; and always a passionate advocate for an open internet.

Dr. Weinberger received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto, and an honorary Doctor of Letters from Simmons College.