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 [Paperback]

If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . .Too Big To Knowis an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion. -- Steven Rosenbaum,Forbes

With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. InToo Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.David Weinbergeris a Senior Researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is the author ofSmall Pieces Loosely Joined,Everything Is Miscellaneous, and a coauthor ofThe Cluetrain Manifesto. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.Marc Benioff, chairman, CEO salesforce.com, bestselling author ofBehind the Cloud
“Led by the Internet, knowledge is now social, mobile, and open. Weinberger shows how to unlock the benefits.”

John Seely Brown, co-author ofThe Social Life of InformationandA New Culture of Learning
“Too Big to Knowis a stunning and profound book on how our concept of knowledge is changing in the age of the Net. It honors the traditional social practices of knowing, where genres stay fixed, and provides a graceful way of understanding new strategies for knowing in today's rapidly evolving, networked world. I couldn't put this book down. It is a true tour-de-force written in a delightful way.”