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David Weinberger Co-director, Harvard Library Innovation Lab Senior researcher, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://www.JohoTheBlog.com 
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
We are in a crisis of knowledge. Our most respected institutions of knowledge - encyclopedias, newspapers, even libraries are under challenge – they are crumbling. While we don't know exactly what will replace them, it is becoming clear that knowledge is changing its basic shape. Which isn’t a story about print and broadcast versus the Internet, but rather about knowledge taking on the properties of the Net itself: super-abundant, unsettled, messily ordered, unrespectful of credentials, without borders, wildly connective, and un-masterable.
In this talk, we will look at the networking of knowledge in science, education, and more to see the opportunities and dangers when knowledge can at last scale up to a world that has from its beginning been too big to know. Will our understanding be able to keep up with our knowledge? How much will Big Data help, especially if it's also taking on properties of the Internet: linked, messy, and always in contention? Will we even recognize what knowledge is becoming?
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is a co-author of the seminal work in Internet marketing, The Cluetrain Manifesto (2000). He is a well-known blogger, writer, and mainstream media commentator, focusing on how the Internet is changing our ideas, and our roles as citizens and customers. He is the author of two other highly regarded books, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web" and "Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder." His new book, "Too Big to Know," looks at how the networking of knowledge and expertise is changing how we understand our world and make decisions in it.
Dr. Weinberger has written many times for Harvard Business Review and Wired, and his work has appeared in journals as diverse as Scientific American, The Atlantic.com, and TV Guide. He is a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and was a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department 2009-2011. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.
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