Amazon | 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 | Weinberger, David

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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.

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256ページ
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2012/1/3
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0465021425
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978-0465021420
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“David Weinberger’s Too Big to Know is an inspiring read—especially for networked leaders who already believe that the knowledge to change the world is living and active, personal, and vastly interconnected. If, as David writes, “Knowledge is becoming inextricable from—literally unthinkable without—the network that enables it” our great task as leaders is to design networks for the greater good. David casts the vision and gives us excellent examples of what that looks like in action, even as he warns us of the pitfalls that await us.” David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

Marc Benioff, chairman, CEO salesforce.com, bestselling author of Behind the Cloud
“Led by the Internet, knowledge is now social, mobile, and open. Weinberger shows how to unlock the benefits.”

John Seely Brown, co-author of The Social Life of Information and A New Culture of Learning “Too Big to Know is a stunning and profound book on how our concept of knowledge is changing in the age of the Net. It honors the traditional social practices of knowing, where genres stay fixed, and provides a graceful way of understanding new strategies for knowing in today's rapidly evolving, networked world. I couldn't put this book down. It is a true tour-de-force written in a delightful way.” Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind“With this insightful book, David Weinberger cements his status as one of the most important thinkers of the digital age. If you want to understand what it means to live in a world awash in information, Too Big to Know is the guide you've been looking for.” Tony Burgess, Cofounder, CompanyCommand.com

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David Weinberger is a Senior Researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and a coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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出版社 ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; 第1版 (2012/1/3)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2012/1/3
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 256ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465021425
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465021420
対象読者年齢 ‏ : ‎ 18 歳以上
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.77 cm

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Knowledge used to be gatekeepered, curated and preserved in serious books. Now we have the Web, and all its diverse chaotic formats and voices. Overload! Crisis! Catastrophe!

Well, no. In this lovely book, Weinberger argues strongly that our conception of knowledge has been blinkered by those very gatekeepers, curators and formats. Books, which he dubs “long-form thinking”, have their problems: they are one-way (author to reader), and closed format (material chosen and packaged into book-length form, implying that is all there is to be siad on the subject). It is only because we are so used to books that we don’t see their disadvantages and limitations very clearly. (And Weinberger is conscious of the irony of making this argument in book form.)

He examines the current state of this “knowledge messiness”, taking the argument a whole stage further than the information messiness covered in his previous long-form work, Everything is Miscellaneous.

The web allows conversations, hyper-linked non-linear presentation, and an unbounded, “bottomless”, format. It allows diversity: anyone can contribute, not just those previously allowed by the gatekeepers. This openness has its benefits, particularly allowing “networked knowledge”, bringing many eyes, viewpoints and skills to bear. It also has its downsides: it allows fools, and trolls, and confusion, and crud. But then Sturgeon’s law applies to books, too.

Weinberger carefully dissects these issues, showing where, when and how web-based knowledge can be superior to book-based. Books have helped hide the fact that knowledge really is messy, and that even when we have access to it, we will often not come to agreement. The rise of the messy web is not to be lamented, as having destroyed the clean, calm, long-form presentation of books; it should be celebrated for exposing the fundamental messiness of reality, and exploited to help us navigate that messiness. He finishes off with a discussion of how to help ensure the web can provide the best support for messy networked knowledge: open access, metadata, links, and, of course, education.

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An excellent reflection on the impact(s) of the disintermediation of information, full of fascinating insights into how our approach to learning and knowing is evolving through the influence of instant connectivity with unimaginable quantities of information. Very well written in every respect--I keep coming back to it for tidbits.

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"Too Big to Know" was an extraordinary listen & read. After listening to the Audible.com version twice, I purchased a Kindle edition, so I could refer to the text & read excerpts to friends and family.

The author's exploration of cyberspace and its effect on our future way of life is richly informative. He provides historical background, current events, and examples of the "bottom-up" creativity and problem-solving made possible in the virtual world of electronic IT. This includes old ideas made new, such as "crowd sourcing", and new ideas such "jellies" and "jams" (have to read his book if you don't already know) that are democratizing society was well as providing exciting new capabilities.

Mr. Weinberger masterfully contrasts how and why the on-line electronic world is different from the two previous information ages -- the invention of writing, followed some 5,000 years later by Gutenberg's invention of a moveable-type printing press. The physical ability to record facts and ideas and make them available in other places and other times was one of humankind's very best ideas. However this flash of brilliance was limited by the nature of ancient technology -- writing required physical material that could be written on and also preserved, stored and distributed.

Counting and recording numbers first consisted of tying sequential knots in a long cord. From this act of 're-cording', comes the verb 'to record' and the plural noun 'records', which also gave us literacy and the cottage industry of scribes. As the centuries rolled by, scribes made marks in wet clay, chiseled the history of their civilization in stone, used carbon ink to write on pappyus-reed sheaves, animal skin scrolls, and eventually wood-pulp paper that could be bound into manuscripts and books. Amassed together, these bound treasures of information, imagination and at time great beauty, gave us the institution of libraries.

Locking information up for posterity in bound books is both the extraordinary gift of a physical hard-copy and also its curse. The difficulty and expense of book publishing created a sense of scarcity, that in turn promoted "long-form" writing -- inclusive, sometime exhaustive works that often are already out-of-date before they are published. The finish product is necessarily sequential, starting with page one and going in order to the end. Its contents and the way material is presented was fixed for all eternity on the day it went to the printer.

"Too Big To Know" is the story of the exciting and astonishing shift way from the limitions of paper and hard-copy publishing -- limits that we frequently didn't recognize. For goldfish in a bowl, the water it swims in is invisible. But more important, its entire watery world depends on the container -- a fact so easy to overlook. Likewise, the tradition of hard-copy books is a rigid container for information, one that we don't think of any more than the goldfish ponders the hard-side glass bowl in which it lives.

The electronic technologies of the 20th and 21st century have quietly replaced the finite and expensive technology of 'hard-copy' bound books. These information containers walled off btw to two covers limited us as readers and writers, but equally important, also required cutting down trees and shipping paper (both before and after being printed) cross-country on trucks for distribution.

Liberated from this, the electronic world of the Internet, email, PDFs, cloud storage provides us with a virtually infinite ability to *arrange and rearrange electrons* and shoot them to the far side of the globe before we can stand up to answer the phone.

The full story of "Too Big To Know" is too big to tell in a book review, so you'll have to buy the book. I recommend starting with the mp3 audio version, as this long but fascinating story is the perfect accompaniment for a long commute, or listening while cooking, washing dishes or gardening. It's also a great gift for a geeky friend.

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Information is such an intrinsic part of our everyday lifes. With Knowledge seemingly at the tip of our fingers, via Internet, we seem to have solved the endless quest for Knowledge. The book will correct this Common mistake and sheds some new light on Information, Knowledge and Wisdom.

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