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100 1  Clippinger, John Henry, |d1943-
245 12 A crowd of one : |bthe future of individual identity / |cJohn Henry Clippinger.
250    1st ed.
260    New York : |bPublicAffairs, |cc2007.
300    xii, 227 p. : |bill., maps ; |c25 cm.
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index (p. 219-227).
505 0  On being open -- The good and the bad -- Oops - apocalypse -- Terrorism's shattered identities -- Unlikely heretics : a Prussian and an economist -- Human nature, language, and social networks -- A new view of human nature -- Transforming trust : social commerce in Rennaissance Florence -- Prospects for digital trust -- Toward a literacy of natural leadership -- Negotiating an identity : one of the crowd -- The power of identity narratives -- The open we - building digital institutions.
520    Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar leaps forward in how we understand ourselves. Now, the new hybrid disciplines of evolutionary biology and social physics are making the next leap possible—and fundamentally altering our notions of individual identity. If identity is a fact not derived from within the individual, but conferred on an individual by a group, or network, a host of assumptions about how governments work, how conflicts arise and are resolved, and how societies can be coaxed toward good are overturned.

John Clippinger brilliantly illuminates how the Enlightenment itself—the high point of individual assertiveness—was a product not just of a few moments of individual inspiration and creativity, but rather of a societal shift that allowed innovation and creativity to flourish. Michelangelo owes quite as much to the circumstances of the Renaissance as the Renaissance does to the work of Michelangelo.

Now, the digitalization of society, which affects all of us already, allows new insight into these questions: What does it require for societies, organizations and individuals, to thrive? Who decides who you are? How can happiness be shared and spread? Who can you trust?
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