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Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
Basic Books
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
256 pages ISBN: 0465021425 EAN: 9780465021420 Kindle: B005XQ97MS Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. Weβd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. Thereβs more knowledge than ever, of course, but itβs 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 knowledgeβfrom the role of facts to the value of books and the authority of expertsβproviding a compelling vision of the future of knowledge in a connected world.
 Media BuzzOn The Media - February 18, 2012
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