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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 / David Weinberger.

Weinberger, David, (Author).
  • Description: xiv, 231 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books,
  • ISBN: 9780465021420 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0465021425 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780465028139 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 0465028136 (ebook)

Available copies

  • 5 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

0 current holds with 7 total copies.

Library Location Call Number Status Due Date
Beverly Main Adult Nonfiction HM 851 .W445 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Danvers Adult Nonfiction HM 851 W4297 2011 (Text to phone) Available -
Endicott College General Collection HM 851 .W4297 2011 (Text to phone) Available -
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Phillips OWHL Main Lobby New NonFiction 303.48 W32TO (Text to phone) Checked out 02/01/2013
Salem Adult Non-Fiction 303.4833/WEINBERGER (Text to phone) Checked out 06/05/2013
Wakefield Adult Nonfiction (2nd Floor) 303.4833 Weinberg (Text to phone) Available -

Contents: Prologue: the crisis of knowledge -- Knowledge overload -- Bottomless knowledge -- The body of knowledge : an introduction to the rest of the book -- The expertise of clouds -- A marketplace of echoes? -- Long form, Web form -- Too much science -- Where the rubber hits the node -- Building the new infrastructure of knowledge.
Summary: Internet philosopher Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter decisions than they could when they had to rely on mere books and experts.

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Subject: Information technology > Social aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.

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