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Posted by Mushin S. on Dec 10th, 2007 10:02am
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I'll be posting some thoughts I'm having that'll probably be incorporated into an upcoming article.
The Knowledge Age
The industrial age is slowly being replaced by what has been called the informational age. With the advance of the Internet information is turned into knowledge by millions day and night - knowledge being information
that is useful for deciding, acting upon, or composing further or new
knowledge. The knowledge-age will most likely in due time give way to
an age of understanding, as the knowledge that is being gathered and
created worldwide becomes understanding; for it is understanding, not
knowledge, that allows us to conceive, anticipate, evaluate and judge
matters. Eventually we might even reach an age of wisdom as our
understanding becomes guided by deep purpose, by ethics, principles,
and appreciative inquiry into the sources, heritage and future of
humanity and planet.
Still living in the information- and at the beginning of the knowledge-age we are living with information
that is valued on the basis of being separable, objective, linear,
mechanistic, and measurable, and that is being thought of and treated
as a scarce resource which often enough is made scarce by laws shielding it against free disseminationF; whereas actually information
and knowledge's basic characteristic is one of abundance - it doesn't
become less by being used and actually profits from free and large
disseminationF.
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growing number of people are discovering creative and new ways to
handle knowledge. They recognize that knowledge creation, meaning and
use are dynamic processes that emerge from interactions between people
in communities and social structures. The Internet, and in particular
values-based social and collaboration networks invigorate peer-to-peer
learning and knowledge creation. This potentially creates the
possibility of an economy not based on scarcity, leveling the field in
which people can participate. In a knowledge based economy success is
not the result of collections (of information or goods) but of connections.
The Open Source movement in software, the Wikipedia, social networks,
the peer2peer movement etc. are great examples for the accelerating
abundance that shared knowledge enables us to create together.
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