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DATA TO WISDOM - Dee W Hock
Why are we so good at accumulating more information and power, but far less successful at acquiring wisdom?
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
humans can no longer cope with the immense flows of data, hence they cannot distil data into information, let alone into knowledge or wisdom.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
But as the digital age drowns us in exponentially increasing rates of new content—most of which is trivial and ephemeral—it is becoming clear that almost everything more than a few years old gets buried by incoming content. This is a serious problem for the continuity of any civilization if most writing and ideas propagate laterally (from peer-to-p
... See moreThe DIKW sequence made immediate sense because it extends what every Computer Science 101 class learns: information is a refinement of mere data. Information thus is the value we extract from data. But once the idea of information overload started taking root (popularized in Alvin Toffler’s 1970 Future Shock ), we needed a way to ch
... See moreDavid Weinberger • The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy
