Building Learning Communities, July 2009 Keynote

Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Institute For Internet and Society – Cambridge, MA

Knowledge has a long history in the West. Its pursuit has been taken as the fulfillment of human nature. But the characteristics of knowledge are remarkably similar to the characteristics of the media by which we have preserved and communicated knowledge. That is not an accident. As a new medium emerges that escapes some of the limitations of the physical, the limitations of knowledge itself are becoming visible. Knowledge itself is transforming, becoming social, shifting, transparent, complex, and connected. This is shaking up institutions that deal with knowledge, including business, media … and education.