Too Big to Know by David Weinberger - ISBN: 9780465085965
Paperback

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

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    7 January 2014

Summary

“If anyone knows anything about the web, where it’s been and where it’s going, it’s David Weinberger…. Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion that is just underway.”-Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780465085965
ISBN-10:0465085962
Author:David Weinberger
Publisher:Basic Books
Imprint:Basic Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:First Trade Paper Edition
Release Date:7 January 2014
Weight:266g
Dimensions:210mm x 141mm x 23mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Marc Benioff, chairman, CEO salesforce.com, bestselling author of Behind the Cloud “Led by the Internet, knowledge is now social, mobile, and open. Weinberger shows how to unlock the benefits.” John Seely Brown, co-author of The Social Life of Information and A New Culture of Learning “Too Big to Know is a stunning and profound book on how our concept of knowledge is changing in the age of the Net. It honors the traditional social practices of knowing, where genres stay fixed, and provides a graceful way of understanding new strategies for knowing in today’s rapidly evolving, networked world. I couldn’t put this book down. It is a true tour-de-force written in a delightful way.” Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “With this insightful book, David Weinberger cements his status as one of the most important thinkers of the digital age. If you want to understand what it means to live in a world awash in information, Too Big to Know is the guide you’ve been looking for.” Tony Burgess, Cofounder, CompanyCommand.com “David Weinberger’s Too Big to Know is an inspiring read–especially for networked leaders who already believe that the knowledge to change the world is living and active, personal, and vastly interconnected. If, as David writes, ‘Knowledge is becoming inextricable from–literally unthinkable without–the network that enables it’ our great task as leaders is to design networks for the greater good. David casts the vision and gives us excellent examples of what that looks like in action, even as he warns us of the pitfalls that await us.”

About The Author

David Weinberger

David Weinberger is a Senior Researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman centre for Internet & Society. He is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and a coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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