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 / David Weinberger.

Author
Weinberger, David, 1950- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Basic Books, 2011.
  • ©2011
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages)

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      Subject(s)
      Summary note
      Internet philosopher 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.
      Notes
      Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-218) and index.
      Source of description
      Description based on print version record.
      Contents
      • Prologue: the crisis of knowledge
      • Knowledge overload
      • Bottomless knowledge
      • The body of knowledge : an introduction to the rest of the book
      • The expertise of clouds
      • A marketplace of echoes?
      • Long form, Web form
      • Too much science
      • Where the rubber hits the node
      • Building the new infrastructure of knowledge.
      ISBN
      • 0465028136 ((electronic bk.))
      • 9780465028139 ((electronic bk.))
      • 9780465038725 ((electronic bk.))
      • 0465038727 ((electronic bk.))
      OCLC
      779854763
      Other standard number
      • 5346677
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