Too Big to Know

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 sknowledge 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 seekerif you know Best Download [ Too Big to Know ] Author [ David Weinberger ] – kino-fada.fr The Internet s abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing including getting our content checked and verified The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge i strongly agree, I wish the Internet hadeducational and cultural filters The Internet s abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing including getting our content checked and verified The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge i strongly agree, I wish the Internet hadeducational and cultural filters, but unfortunately most of them work for commercial and economic purposes.It s a very interesting point of view about how the standard system of knowledge has changed since the Internet arrival The main conclusion is evident Today s abundance of data and online information makes it difficult to know what is true and what is false information overload Even though I think the Internet brings us a big opportunity to learn Our task is to learn how to bu...I was 18% of the way through this book before I realized it was a book about philosophy Well, perhaps it isn t, perhaps it s filed under popular computing or whatever the books that tell you how everything is different with the Internet section is called these days But what I took from this book was the philosophy.Now I ve read a little of philosophy I can recognize a bunch of the Greeks and maybe make a lame ham fisted explanation of one or two, but the real thing I learned from my reading I was 18% of the way through this book before I realized it was a book about philosophy Well, perhaps it isn t, perhaps it s filed under popular computing or whatever the books that tell you how everything is different with the Internet section is called these days But what I took from this book was the philosophy.Now I ve read a little of philosophy I can recognize a bunch of the Greeks and maybe make a lame ham fisted explanation of one or two, but the real thing I learned from my reading is that philosophers have tended to congregate around a few different interesting questions like what s the right way to live your life , and why are we here , and what is knowledge and how do we know things anyway Too Big to Know s philosophy is about knowledge, not about virtue and higher meaning.Weinberger s central thesis is that The Internet Changed Everything Well kind of It exposed everything In ...This is a decent surface skim of the way the Internet is redefining how we think and what knowledge even means Things aren t discussed in much depth, but topics in this area are introduced enough that you can start to think about them for yourself I enjoyed setting the book aside to think deeper about some of what it talked about, and while I often disagreed with the author, he later reveals he disagrees with a lot of what has already been said doom and gloom wise about the Internet He just d This is a decent surface skim of the way the Internet is redefining how we think and what knowledge even means Things aren t discussed in much depth, but topics in this area are introduced enough that you can start to think about them for yourself I enjoyed setting the book aside to think deeper about some of what it talked about, and while I often disagreed with the author, he later reveals he disagrees with a lot of what has already been said doom and gloom wise about the Internet He just doesn t follow his own train of thought very far.Weinberger s main point is contained in the poorly worded subtitle that sacrificed clarity for snark What he means by the smartest person in the room is the room is that the room is now The Internet, and it s smarter than any one person because it s an easy way to find answers from anyone across the entirety of this network of network...If the number of underlines in a book is any measure of quality or at least interest , this is possibly the wisest book I ve read on the changes in how we think about knowledge Every chapter has at least 10 underlined passages Weinberger gets a lot of it right the changes in our expectations about what constitutes validity how internetworking at the speed and scale we have now radically changes the WAYS we think and the ways in which large amounts of networked knowledge allows us to think If the number of underli...The premise of this book is that somehow networked organizations and networked thinking will lead to better, smarter decisions As long as we include a sufficient diversity of opinions and experience in the networks helping us make our decisions we will arrive at better,informed answers In fact, as the amount of information explodes, these networks will be the only way to manage all the information we are creating.Here s the problem I don t think anyone will dispute that reaching out the The premise of this book is that somehow networked organizations and networked thinking will lead to better, smarter decisions As long as we include a sufficient diversity of opinions and experience in the networks helping us make our decisions we will arrive at better,informed answers In fact, as the...This is a good book, yet I found it very hard to persist to the end Perhaps for someone who is deeply knowledgeable about the evolution of networks, and who swims effortlessly in the hyperlinked knowledge environment of blogs and tweets, this work of philosophy will deepen their understanding of powerful changes that come with a paradigm shift For myself, I am desperately trying to flit from one observation post to another as I borrow the perspective of those who are knowledgeable about what t This is a good book, yet I found it very hard to persist to the end Perhaps for someone who is deeply knowledgeable about the evolution of networks, and who swims effortlessly in the hyperlinked knowledge environment of blogs and tweets, this work of philosophy will deepen their understanding of powerful changes that come with a paradigm shift For myself, I am desperately trying to flit from one observation post to another as I borrow the perspective of those who are knowledgeable about what the internet has done is doing to society I ve read The Net Delusion by Evegeny Morozov, Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, Hamlet s Blackeberry by William Powers, The Penguin and the Leviathan by Yochai Benkler, Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky, Macrowikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, and The Shallows by Nicholas Carr Of all the above books, this one was the most difficult for me to hol...Though there really is too much to even discuss much less know regarding new media s effect on how we establish, glean, and use knowledge, Weinberger does a fantastic job in exploring many of these issues Better yet, he does so in an engaging manner, presenting plenty of historical and modern day examples in a sophisticated, yet easy to read narrative voice What most impresses me about Weinberger s approach is his clear confidence in the importance of these issues coupled with a conscious Though there really is too much to even discuss much less know regarding new media s effect on how we establish, glean, and use knowledge, Weinberger does a fantastic job in exploring many of these issues Better yet, he does so in an engaging manner, presenting plenty of historical and modern day examples in a sophisticated, yet easy to read narrative voice What most impresses me about Weinberger s approach is his clear confidence in the importance of these issues coupled with a consciousness of the limitations of... In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger 2011 develops a materialist argument with regards to the relationship between the medium and nature of communication, arguing t ransform the medium by which we develop, preserve, and communicate knowledge, and we transform knowledge Such arguments have been made by others, such as Kittler in his book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, where he sets out how each of these technologies transformed knowledge production and changed how people relate to and inter In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger 2011 develops a materialist argument with regards to the relationship between the medium and nature of communication, arguing t ransform the medium by which we develop, preserve, and communicate knowledge, and we transform knowledge Such arguments have been made by others, such as Kittler in his book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, where he sets out how each of these technologies transformed knowledge production and changed how people relate to and interact with knowledge Of course, it s not just technologies that shape the creation of knowledge, but social and cultural milieu with, for example, the notion of authorship and readership shifting over time in response to politica...From Harvard s Center for Internet Society, these 200 pages punch far above their weight Supremely well organized, with memorable, witty anecdotes throughout Knowledge is no longer anything like it has ever been The world is far, far too big to know pXIVYes, having all knowledge available in our pockets changes everything, changes what knowing means and whether it matters This 2011 book feels rather timeless, and also most timely Notes that Carl Sunstein in 2001 predicts echo cham From Harvard s Center for Internet Society, these 200 pages punch far above their weight Supremely well organized, with memorable, witty anecdotes throughout Knowledge is no longer anything like it has ever been The world is far, far too big to know pXIVYes, having all knowledge available in our pockets changes everything, changes what knowing means and whether it matters This 2011 book feels rather timeless, and also most timely Notes that Carl Sunstein in 2001 predicts echo chambers, and foretells their sad impact on democracy and politics p82 3Scientific models don t have to model reality, they just need to work for their purpose Just as knowled...

• English
• 14 January 2017
David Weinberger
• Hardcover
• 231 pages
• 0465021425
• David Weinberger
• Too Big to Know