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f anyone knows anything about the web, where its been and where its going, it’s David Weinberger. As a co-author of the seminal Clue Train Manifesto, Weinberger gave a generation of web innovators a clue as to how the web would evolve.
In Too Big To Know - Weinberger sets out to argue that the very nature of information and ideas is changing, even as you flip the pages of his book.
The world was, almost since the beginning of time, built around the concept of triangular knowledge. At the bottom of the triangle is data. Raw and unstructured. The Knowledge Triangle presented first in 1988 by Russel Akkoff presented DIKW (Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) as the basis for our information ecology. Weinberger says our Information Age was built on this pyramid – creating an elaborate filtering system to sort Wisdom from Data.
To read the full, original article click on this link: The Web: Too Big To Know? - Forbes
