''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'' is a non-fiction book by the American technology writer
David Weinberger
David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American author, technologist, and speaker. Trained as a philosopher, Weinberger's work focuses on how technology — particularly the internet and machine learning — is changing our ideas, with books about the ...
published in 2012 by
Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.
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Overview
It describes the
World Wide Web-enabled shift in the production, transmission, reception, and storage of
knowledge in the early 21st century. Weinberger discusses topics such as
expert
An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep understanding and competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable s ...
ise,
echo chambers,
open government,
the WELL,
Debian
Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...
, the U.S. Army's
Center for the Advancement of Leader Development and Organizational Learning; and the writing of
Charles Darwin (''
On the Origin of Species'') and
Nicholas G. Carr
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has published books
and articles on technology, business, and culture. His book '' The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains'' was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in G ...
("
Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"). He argues that "networked knowledge brings us closer to the
truth about knowledge."
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See also
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Knowledge ecosystem
References
Further reading
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External links
Official websiteBasic Books webpage for ''Too Big to Know''*
Books about the Internet
Networks
2012 non-fiction books
Books about books
American non-fiction books
Web 2.0
Works about information
Basic Books books
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