Too Big to Know
Knowledge outgrew the container it was kept in. What replaces the book and the expert is the network itself.
David Weinberger argues that knowledge has outgrown the containers built to hold it. A book, a journal, an expert, a curriculum all imposed a filter, and the network removes it. What replaces the old settlement is messier and more argumentative, and Weinberger thinks that is closer to how knowledge actually works than the tidy version we inherited.
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Alan Rusbridger
If you want to know about the environment in depth, or the law in depth, the question is who can deliver that the most effectively. Is it going to be one journalist, which is all that most papers can currently afford? Can that one journalist match the wealth of content that is being produced by people who are PhDs and whose lives are spent obsessing about the environment or law?
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