Review: 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
User Review - Laura - GoodreadsQuite a convincing argument that technology has altered forever the ways in which we deal with information. Hyperlinks allow us to include our entire data sets and gives us the opportunity as readers ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Armanda Moncton - GoodreadsThis is a good book, yet I found it very hard to persist to the end. Perhaps for someone who is deeply knowledgeable about the evolution of networks, and who swims effortlessly in the hyperlinked ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Chase - GoodreadsIn David Weinberger's Too Big to Know an argument develops in regards to technology and how the internet is changing the way people interact and relate to knowledge. No longer bound to looking for ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Rob Kitchin - GoodreadsIn Too Big to Know, David Weinberger (2011) develops a materialist argument with regards to the relationship between the medium and nature of communication, arguing: '[t]ransform the medium by which ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Greg Linster - GoodreadsHow do you know what you think you know? What counts as knowledge and what doesn't? These questions speak to a great semantics-based problem, ie, trying to define what 'knowledge' is. Studying the ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Rhodes Hileman - GoodreadsThe net has a substantial, maybe overwhelming, impact on the way we know the world. Mr. Weinberger surveys the consequences comprehensively, and in doing so presents some insights that might be new ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Ambrose - GoodreadsWeinberger does not seem to know what “axioms” are, talking about “axiomatic certainty” (p. 45) as if they were equivalent to undeniable facts while at the same time rejecting “unfalsifiable claims ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Laurie Niestrath - GoodreadsIf all of Weinberger's books are as insightful as this one, that I am now a fan! His in depth look at the world of knowledge asks the reader to meet him more than half way as he discusses the concepts ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - John Miedema - GoodreadsLife has always been too big to know. My mother grew up in a little village in Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands. Her family farm was near a canal where she skated with her friends ... Read full review
Review: 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
User Review - Rebecca - GoodreadsThough there really is "too much" to even discuss (much less know!) regarding new media's effect on how we establish, glean, and use knowledge, Weinberger does a fantastic job in exploring many of ... Read full review