Too Big to Know

Too Big to Know

Author	David Weinberger
Language	English
Subject	Information theory, Internet
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	2012
Publication place	United States
Pages	256 pp.
ISBN	978-0465021420

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 is a non-fiction book by the American technology writer David Weinberger published in 2012 by Basic Books.

Overview

It describes the World Wide Web-enabled shift in the production, transmission, reception, and storage of knowledge in the early 21st century. Weinberger discusses topics such as expertise, echo chambers, open government, the WELL, Debian, the U.S. Army's Center for the Advancement of Leader Development and Organizational Learning; and the writing of Charles Darwin (On the Origin of Species) and Nicholas G. Carr ("Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"). He argues that "networked knowledge brings us closer to the truth about knowledge."

David Weinberger (2011)

See also

• Knowledge ecosystem

Further reading

• Quentin Hardy (December 3, 2011). "How the Internet Is Ruining Everything". Bits Blog. New York Times.
• Doctorow, Cory (February 1, 2012). "Too Big to Know: David Weinberger explains how knowledge works in the Internet age". Boing Boing.
• Steven Rosenbaum (May 6, 2012). "The Web: Too Big To Know?". Forbes.com.
• Seife, Charles (2007). Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes. Viking. ISBN 978-0143038399.

External links

• Official website
• Basic Books webpage for Too Big to Know
• Roberts, Russ (February 27, 2012). "Weinberger on Too Big to Know". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.