Too big to know

rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren't the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room

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Too big to know

rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren't the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room

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We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than ever, of course, but it's different. Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything. Yet this is the greatest time in history to be a knowledge seeker, if you know how. In Too Big to Know, Internet philosopher David Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter decisions than they could when they had to rely on mere books and experts. This groundbreaking book shakes the foundations of our concept of knowledge -- from the role of facts to the value of books and the authority of experts -- providing a compelling vision of the future of knowledge in a connected world. - Publisher.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
231

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Table of Contents

Prologue: the crisis of knowledge
Knowledge overload
Bottomless knowledge
The body of knowledge : an introduction to the rest of the book
The expertise of clouds
A marketplace of echoes?
Long form, Web form
Too much science
Where the rubber hits the node
Building the new infrastructure of knowledge.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/33
Library of Congress
HM851 .W445 2012, HM851 .W4297 2011, HM851 .W445 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25011478M
ISBN 13
9780465021420, 9780465028139
LCCN
2011034727
OCLC/WorldCat
701015486

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