… (below) the “About Wirearchy” section of this blog when it was hosted on another blog provider.
I just gently chided a reader (Jeremy of the Sift Experiment blog) for “sifting” a bit too much on his (great) blog, and noted that I worried – often – about trying too hard to promote “wirearchy” too often on my blog.
That being said .. I was deeply impressed today upon watching and listening to David Weinberger’s explanation to an audience at the Library of Congress about how very different is this entirely new set of conditions … us all linked to each other.
He went through the origins of thinking about knowledge – Plato, Aristotle, Descartes – and then launched into the structure of the architectural assumption of the Dewey Decimal System, as the informing principle for the organization, categorization and classification of knowledge. He then led his audience through a very clear and deft explanation of how information, links and peoples’ voices all messed up together on the web were in fact re-arranging the fundamental assumptions about “knowledge” – for good.
So … I thought I’d offer up my “On Wirearchy”, as my $.02 on how all this may come to be very different than what we have known and accepted up till now.
I’d also like to ask any readers who care to offer thier views … what can I do to make this clearer, more practical and useful, and where does there need to be a deepening of any given point ?
On Wirearchy
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