Virtual Unreality

In Virtual Unreality Charles Seife takes a serious look at how the nature of information has changed in the digital age.  This book is full of things that appeal to the heart of a librarian and should be in everyone’s general toolkit as they attempt to make their way in a digital world.  Seife addresses issues as diverse as the question of “authority”, fake people, copyright, information scarcity, scams, noise to signal ratio in our data, and more. 

The only problem I had with this book was that occasionally the author would introduce a topic and then go in a completely unexpected (and in my personal opinion crazy) direction with it.  The copyright chapter is the best example of this.  All in all, however, the book raises issues that it is important for people to be aware of so I would recommend that you pick it up.