Friday, June 01, 2007

"Everything is Miscellaneous"

If you've got a half hour or more to invest in a tech talk, this is an interesting talk on the history of thought and how it's changing due to technology. I don't delve into this subject much, but I stumbled across it and found it engaging and accessible, as well as funny and insightful. The key concept is that knowledge itself is becoming less hierarchical and more user-driven because it is less limited by the physical world and more digital. Any type of knowledge can now become meta-data to use to find other information, the author asserts. Check it out!

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