03.+Knowledge

=Knowledge=

media type="custom" key="12352107" Knowledge (encyclopedia, newspapers) Hyperlink If we pay attention to facts and processes, we can agree. STOPPING POINTS AND UNSCALABLE Knowledge is representation of the world. It is built step by step, nailed down. Is a type of winnowing (filtering): in agricultura separating grains from chaff. So many opinios. Strategies to deal with knowledge. Take a brain size chunk of the world and master it. A system of stopping points with a backup system called credentials (you have a degree) Books are great and bad. Libraries a tiny, not too much fit in. Libraries, books do not scale. Book writers leave out a lot. Books are stopping points. Knowledge has been conditioned by the medium. Once books are pulished, they stay like that. Knowldge has been conditioned by the medium.

New medium is LINKS. Punctuation tells where to stop, link where to continue. Only one click. Four Charasteristics of the Internet taken up by knowledge: What we have in common isn't one knowledge about which we agree, but a shared world about which we disagree. - D. Weinberger
 * Too much: There is no such thing as overload, only filter failure. - Clay Shirky
 * INFORMATION OVERLOAD: there was always too much, we just have to __adjust our filter__. "Too much to know" by Ann Blair
 * Alvin Toffler "Future Shock", coined term "information overload"
 * sensory overload 1950
 * 1974 information overload
 * FILTERS: filtering used to be to __remove__ that which is filtered out (handful new book in the library, the other books are trashed.
 * In the digital age we include everything. it may not be found, but it is still there, can be found one day, by someone. Include everything. Deleting is expensive. (old files on disk)
 * When you curate (decide what goes on the book shelf) you try to anticipate what readers need. but it is impossible.You cannot anticipate what is valuable to people. You cannot predict history. Some meeting notes from past may become interesting for someone in the present. Keep everything but filter on the way out. (Google search output)
 * Messy
 * We **organize** to find it but also. to know what something is to know its place in the universe. Classification. Knowledge is to know the universal essence of things, such as what makes a bird.What is similar and difference (Aristotele). Physical objects have to be at some place, can only be in one place, no two things can be at the same place at the same time. (organize CDs by alphabetically or genre)
 * If digital, we can make multiple playlists operating simultaneously.
 * Messiness is how you scale meaning.
 * Unsettled
 * The Internet is full of unsettled ideas.For every fact on the Internet there is an equal and opposite fact. We do not agree about anything. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own facts." Moynihan We need to learn how to deal with the fact that we do not agree about anything.
 * Techniques: Forking to enable difference to continue without disrupting everything. Namespaces. Matching names and taxonomies. Platypus Echochamber theory: when you have choices to hang out with others, you tend to choose like minded which further harder the belief instead of opening up the mind. We become more and more polarized. "The Republic.com" by Cass Sustein. Conversations are small iterations over a huge amount of agreements. 99% same language, topics, understanding.
 * Unstructured
 * Internet and knowledge are unstructured. Datacommons (genetics, astronomy, government, libraries) Re-inventing Discovery about the Networking of Science by Michael Nielsen
 * Knowledge
 * unbounded
 * overwheming
 * unsettled
 * messy
 * linked
 * interest

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