HOW SMART IS THE ROOM YOU'RE IN?
The book "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, expresses in depth statements about the modern technological world we are all living in today. Modern society today, revolves on an evolution of technology. This technology keeps advancing right before our eyes with every second that goes by.
Weinberger makes an interesting argument based on our knowledge about technology networking. Weinberger states that "as knowledge becomes networked, the smartest person in the room isn't the person standing at the front lecturing us, and isn't the collective wisdom of those in the room. The smartest person in the room is the room itself: the network that joins the people and ideas in the room, and connects to those outside of it". This notion is interesting to me because I picture this "smart-room" as the Internet.
The Internet has provided us with an immense amount of knowledge and networking possibilities and\or opportunities. Before the Internet, it took us longer to do research and receive information on anything we were interested on. People would have to search for hours throughout many textbooks or go around asking people questions. But now, thanks to the Internet, that is no longer the case. The internet has provided us with a "knowledge overload", as Weinberger says, which in my opinion has helped us have an easier life. It is so much a part of our daily lives that personally, I can not imagine a day in my life without having any access to the internet at all. Overall, the Internet is THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM!! I cannot think of any human who is more knowledgeable than the Internet....can you?
Hey first of all I wanna say I really REALLY like the style of your blog ! It's really neat and looks well planned out. Also, you took a very unique position on the argument Weiberger makes. I never would have looked at it in that way! "I cannot think of any human who is more knowledgeable than the Internet....can you?"
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