1. Too Big to Know
David Weinberger Ph.D.
self@evident.com
www.JohoTheBlog.com
dweinberger@twitter
Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Co-Director
Harvard Berkman Center
for Internet & Society
Senior Researcher
Systems Integration KM Leaders Community
Dec. 18, 2012

3. StuffPo

5. (cc) Paul Lowry @ Flickr.com

8. Everyone is
entitled to his own
opinion, not his own
facts.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

9. Everyone is
entitled to his own
There is one
knowledge.
opinion, not his own
facts.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

10. Knowledge will
bring us together.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

11. What knowledge was
(cc) Striatic @ flickr.com!

13. (cc) thomas23 @ flickr

14. Living things
Plants Animals
Invertebrates Vertebrates
Reptiles Birds Mammals

18. Certified!
Answer!
STOP!
Belief!
Point!

19. (c) Abelardo Morell

21. (cc) Howzey @ Flickr!
Networked science

26. The Net is exposing a long-hidden truth

27. We Don’t Agree.
The Net is exposing a long-hidden truth

28. Fur?
Four Bird beak??
EGGS???
feet?

29. Scientist Scientist Scientist
Platypus!
watermole!
Ornithorhynchus
paradoxus!
Taxonomies
Names EOL.org

32. Social learning
(cc) mizzD @ flickr.com

33. Thesis
Software developers now live
in the fastest, most
efficient and effective
ecosystem for rapid learning
that ever existed

37. Lessons from Developers
Humility & Generosity
Iteration
Public learning

38. Photos: Abundance without order
cc steve kay @ flickr

40. Living things
Plants Animals
Invertebrates Vertebrates
Reptiles Birds Mammals

42. Red
1942
Rosie the
Riveter
coiff

43. Red
1942
Rosie the
Riveter
coiff

44. Red
1942
Rosie the
Riveter
coiff

45. Messiness
scales
meaning

46. Authority
cc steve kay @ flickr

50. Library as platform
(cc) MandoLux @ flickr.com

51. Platform vs. Portal

53. 1. ideas
People Works
2. Tools Services
3.
Data Metadata

54. 1. ideas
People Works
Ubiquitous portal access
Social objects > networks
Open innovation

55. End-user services
2. Tools Services
Developer building blocks
Developer tools

56. Backends are Web-starts
Support standards
Share our work
Rethink privacy
3. Metadata
Data

59. Locality enables Difference

61. What knowledge was
(cc) Striatic @ flickr.com!

62. Curated
Settled
Scarce
Orderly
Discrete

63. inclusive
Unsettled
Overwhelming
messy
Linked

64. Networked knowledge may
or may not be true-er
about the world,
but it is true-er about
human knowing.

65. Thank you.
David Weinberger
Blog: www . JohoTheBlog . Com
Email: self@evident . com
Twitter: dweinberger