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From: ittai@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.cog-eng,comp.infosystems
Subject: New book: Shared Minds
Keywords: colloboration,CSCW,groupware
Message-ID: <4269@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 90 14:51:24 GMT
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Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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This weekend I stumbled across a brand new book about groupware/CSCW.
More correctly, it is about collaboration and the technologies which
foster it.

It is called "Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration" by
Michael Shrage (Random House, ISBN 0-394-5687-8, publication date:
8/90).  According to the bio, Shrage writes the nationally syndicated
"Innovation" column for the LA Times.  He also spent a year as a
visiting scholar at MIT's Media Lab.

I only began reading the book last night, but I'm inpressed with what
I've read so far: it is well researched and well written.  I think it
is successful in articulating the importance and broad scope of this
nascent technology in an easily approachable and enjoyable style.

-Ittai