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
by David Weinberger · first published 2012
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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 the
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…inspired me to deep-dive into how the pages of my docs site relate to each other, which yielded some useful insights: https://technicalwriting.dev/data/intertwingularity.html (Baker's book led me to Too Big To Know, which in turn led me to the concept of intertwingularity)
on “Focus on decisions, not tasks” ↗Oh wow, cool! Thanks for writing the book and nice to meet you. Maybe it's time for Too Big To Know 2.0 given how GenAI is changing the data / information / knowledge / wisdom landscape so much? P.S. I am referencing your concept of networked knowledge in an upcoming conference presentation with my…
on “Focus on decisions, not tasks” ↗…centuries after the Flood, but probably never in the great numbers that there once had been. No one knows exactly when they finally died out." David Weinberger talks about phenomena such as this in his book Too Big To Know.
on “A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher” ↗Hi. I wrote Too Big to Know, and your post intertwingled me with this thread, these books, and you. (Note: I'm taking Google Alerts & Ego Salve as an ironic agent of Ted Nelson's concept of intertwingularity.)
on “Focus on decisions, not tasks” ↗