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

from nnschiller

I finished this on the plane heading into LA. I really, really enjoyed reading the book, but it is going to take me quite a bit of time to unpack it. I was surprised that its reviews were so mixed. It did not suffer from the flaws attributed to it, I thought. Instead, I think the reviewers were e...

from getaneha

In this book, Weinberger offers yet his staunchest critique on well established conceptual and theoretical foundations of knowledge including the DIKW pyramid that most computer science and library science have incorporated in their curriculum in their foundations course. Another concept he took ...

from paulsignorelli

David Weinberger's "Too Big To Know" is everything we've come to expect from him: engaging, thought-provoking, introspective, and even gently self-effacing. We gain a lot through Weinberger's ruminations on the nature of knowledge at a time when knowledge is far from defined solely by what is bet...

from AThurman

No great discoveries here, but a consistently interesting look at the impact of the internet on knowledge.

from shadowofthewind

The focus of Weinberger's new book, Too Big to Know, is the changing world of knowledge. We have gone from having singular experts, think tanks, and books, to a vast assortment of information available online. It's an impossible task to it all down and turn it into knowledge. We have to find ways...