January 2012
131 posts
“Even if the smartest person in the room is the room itself, the room does not...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Chapter 9 is about what we have to do to make the network a better...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Chapter 6 is on long-form thinking (books) versus hyperlinked webs.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“It’s not that the network is a super-brain or is going to become conscious. It’s...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Truths will remain true, but we are losing the sense that we know how to build a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“We are losing knowledge’s body”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Facts give us a way of settling our disagreements. But networked facts open out...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Now, in the Age of the Net it makes sense to talk about networked facts. If...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“the Age of Classic Facts, represented by Darwin with a dissecting kit and by...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“In 1819, when the British House of Commons considered a new bill that would have...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Throughout his life, Malthus did indeed rewrite his masterwork. By the time he...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“If Malthus had submitted his book to a sophomore college class for his final...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“So what happened in the nineteenth century to make facts the bedrock of...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Facts were evil deeds, so a murder would have been a fact, but not that the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Books are designed to contain all the information required to stop inquiries...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“So, filters have been turned inside out. Instead of reducing information and...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Filters are content.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“it’s hard to avoid at least some level of despair as the traditional authorities...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“There was always too much to know, but now that fact is thrown in our faces at...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Filters no longer filter out. They filter forward”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“That’s the way traditional physical filters have worked: They separate a pile...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“In 1642, Jan Amos Comenius complained that “bookes [sic] are grown so common...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“In 1680, the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz wrote of his fear of the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“It’s comforting to know that the idea that information will cause civilization...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550–1700,” Journal...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“we don’t have to have a firm sense of how long a zettabyte would stretch or how...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“We now laugh in the face of such danger.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Richard Saul Wurman’s book Information Anxiety, published in 1989, made its case...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Rather than knowing-by-reducing to what fits in a library or a scientific...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“our information systems worked only because they so rigorously excluded just...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“We’ve managed the fire hose by reducing the flow. We’ve done this through an...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Our most basic strategy for understanding a world that far outruns our brain’s...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Darwin spent five years sailing on a small boat, Galileo defied a Pope, and...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Back before Ackoff ’s pyramid, back when the idea of knowledge first occurred to...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Fine.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Of course, to get knowledge to look like it’s an outcome of information, you...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Thirty years go by. You and the rest of the world have been refining data into...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“T. S. Eliot wrote these lines in 1934 in a poem called “The Rock.” The next...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“In his 1988 presidential address to the International Society for General...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“at the core of knowledge’s new exaltation and transformation is a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“The new way of knowing is just now becoming apparent. Although we can’t yet know...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Our task is to learn how to build smart rooms—that is, how to build networks...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“As knowledge becomes networked, the smartest person in the room isn’t the person...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Knowledge is now a property of the network, and the network embraces businesses,...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“So, we are in a crisis of knowledge at the same time that we are in an epochal...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“And yet, at the very same time, sites such as Politifact.com are fact-checking...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“Google is degrading our memories. Google is making us stupid. The Internet loves...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
“At its worst, this crisis of knowledge is apparent in the jumble of fears put...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest P by David Weinberger
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