Comments on: Forum 2009 Keynote audio – David Weinberger http://litablog.org/2009/10/forum-2009-keynote-audio-david-weinberger/ Library and Information Technology Association Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: eby http://litablog.org/2009/10/forum-2009-keynote-audio-david-weinberger/comment-page-1/#comment-219676 eby Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:48:12 +0000 http://litablog.org/?p=1720#comment-219676 Information from the ALA site for LITA Forum: Knowledge in the Age of Abundance David Weinberger, Berkman Institute for Internet & Society Nothing has been more important to our culture than knowledge. We've even used it to define who we are: We are the rational animals, the animals that can know their world. But our traditional Western notion of knowledge has been premised on an implicit scarcity: of access to publishers, access to books, and a scarcity of knowledge itself. Our new connected age is one of abundance. This is bringing a change in the nature, shape, value and role of knowledge itself. Information from the ALA site for LITA Forum:

Knowledge in the Age of Abundance
David Weinberger, Berkman Institute for Internet & Society

Nothing has been more important to our culture than knowledge. We’ve even used it to define who we are: We are the rational animals, the animals that can know their world. But our traditional Western notion of knowledge has been premised on an implicit scarcity: of access to publishers, access to books, and a scarcity of knowledge itself. Our new connected age is one of abundance. This is bringing a change in the nature, shape, value and role of knowledge itself.

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