2009 Weinberger Keynote

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Knowledge after Information

Presenter: David Weinberger

As the Information Age comes to a close, the nature of knowledge is changing. The Information Age and Western culture leading up to it have assumed that knowledge is scarce and hard to come by, but that it is also of the highest value when found. But now we are in a time of abundance of knowledge, information, insights, and opinions…but also of lies, deceptions, bias and foolishness. We are not going to be able to squeeze knowledge back into its old boundaries. Indeed, the new abundance may be transforming the nature, social role, and social effects of knowledge. In his keynote, David Weinberger will look at what knowledge is becoming in an age of abundance.

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