David Weinberger on How the P2P Information Explosion Will Transform Business

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= David Weinberger | “Too Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life” (MP3 audio) | November 30, 2011 | School of Information, U.C. Berkeley [1]

MP3 Podcast via http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/audio/download/20975/2011-11-30-david-weinberger.mp3


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"Systems designed around information scarcity and inaccessibility in the agricultural and industrial ages are giving way to a world of abundance in information so easily accessible.

Too Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life | School of Information


… our old system of knowledge was based around the limitations of paper, a disconnected, expensive medium that managed a world that was too big to know by cutting down on what we had to deal with. There were of course advantages to that, but they came at the cost of throwing out most of what the world was trying to tell us.


In the new knowledge ecology, knowledge takes on the properties of its new medium, the Net. That means knowledge has become huge, it’s connected, and it embraces disagreement and differences. The key is to think about knowledge not as a set of content but as a network: the smartest person in the room is now the room itself. Then the question is, how can you build, maintain, and nurture a smart network?


David Weinberger is one of the most respected thought-leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is a co-author of the bestselling book, The Cluetrain Manifesto — which InformationWeek called “the most important business book since In Search of Excellence” — and is the author of Everything is Miscellaneous and Small Pieces Loosely Joined.


Weinberger’s new book, Too Big to Know, explores how the networking of knowledge is transforming expertise and decision-making in business, government, education, and science." (http://daviding.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/david-weinberger-too-big-to-know-how-the-new-dimensions-of-information-are-transforming-business-and-life-mp3-audio-november-30-2011-school-of-information-u-c-berkeley/)