How the Internet is Ruining Everything - NYTimes.com ⇢

“Newspapers, encyclopedias, they are just gone, at the touch of a hyperlink,” Mr. Weinberger said. The institutions of “education and politics – they’ll just shatter. How did they get to be so fragile?” With the pained glee of a scientist discovering very bad news, he added, “knowledge for my generation was at the center of the human quest. It is going the way of the recording industry. It is a term that won’t survive the generation.”

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But more important where the destruction of the institutions that supposedly steward the development of knowledge is concerned, he said, is the Web’s ever-changing structure of links, which undermines hierarchical analysis by allowing everyone to see and contribute different points of view. “In a highly-connected medium we would expect knowledge to change. And it does,” he said, “the knowledge lives in webs and networks as it has in books.”

This is an article from a lecture held by David Weinberger on the subject of his forthcoming book “Too Big to Know”. A key issue he was talking about was the ongoing and coming destruction of our institutions of knowledge due to the new structure of knowledge due to Internet and hyperlinking. Since I have been talking about this for some time I am very interested in getting hold of the book when it is released

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   I don’t neccessarily agree, but still good to consider!

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    Too Big To Know. The impact of the internet

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    I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s something to think about. I already think it’s ruining personal relationships,...

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    perhaps I’s misreading this, but it seems as though the argument is in favor of the proliferation of knowledge through...

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    I don’t know that it’s ruining knowledge so much as changing the way we receive it. The concepts he’s talking...

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