Building the #Knowosphere
April 27, 2012
In a talk, “Building the #Knowosphere: How new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet“ on Earth Day 2012 at MIT, New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin suggests how to use the Web and other emerging communication tools and networks to make the world a better place
The notion of Knowosphere has roots in the early 20th century, and even as far back as Darwin.
He also suggests reading Too Big To Know. The author, David Weinberger, a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, says our task, in an age of networked intelligence is to learn how to build “smart rooms” in a talk.
Video Source: MIT TechTV
Comments (2)
by Tom King
I don’t understand Revkin. He sorta / kinda / maybe / perhaps understands that Climate Change is a disaster, but he won’t actually say it. I used to read his columns but got turned off by his perpetual refusal to use logic to pinpoint the very obvious end game. People need to hear the truth about the rapidly changing atmosphere but instead we get this hazy cloud of information avoidance.
by Jonathan Cole
Great lecture. In the Knowosphere entertainment value will probably trumpt nuance, and perhaps that is ok in the long run. When a wide audience demands a solution that is impossible due to nuance, the issue can be clarified then. Or perhaps the wide audience will approve funding to invent around the impossible solution they will demand?