Information is -not- Knowledge

Martin writes “The author of this article in Harvard Business Review argues that those who claim “the world is flat” are making the mistake of equating information with knowledge. “Information is a message, one-dimensional and bounded by its form. . . . You can package it and instantly distribute it to anyone, anywhere.” Google is the ultimate information machine. But “knowledge results from the assimilation and connecting of information through experience, most often through apprenticeship or mentoring [and] no amount of IT can, at least not yet crack the problem of how to speed knowledge acquisition. It takes about the same amount of time today to learn French, calculus, or chemistry as it did 200 years ago.”

April 6, 2006 by Uncategorized 0

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