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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
By David Weinberger
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Too Big to Know explores the transformation of knowledge in the digital age, revealing how the internet has made information social, mobile, and open. David Weinberger offers an optimistic yet cautionary perspective on the ongoing information explosion, highlighting new strategies for understanding and navigating the vast, networked world of knowledge.
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"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

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"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

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Praised by leaders like Marc Benioff and John Seely Brown, the book is described as a profound and insightful guide to living in an information-rich era. Reviewers applaud Weinberger's engaging writing and his ability to bridge traditional and modern concepts of knowledge, making it a compelling and essential read for those interested in the impact of the internet on how we know.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780465085965

Publisher: Basic Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 January 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Basic Books

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 141.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 266g

Pages: 256

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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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