Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:32:49 01/14/05
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On January 14, 2005 at 03:22:13, E. Nielsen wrote: >>The knowledge is not necessarily contained in the people. Indeed, most of it >>resides in data stores. > >Really?!? Is knowledge really knowledge without understanding? >Say, if all of mankind suddently died - except for some few communities how have >been living in the same way since the stoneage with no contact to rest of the >world. Could they use the knowlegde in the data stores? Are we not also having >trouble deciffering knowledge from ancient civilisations? Kind of like "If a tree falls in a forest with no ear to hear it, does it make a sound?" I suppose if we killed ourselves off, the knowledge would lose its value unless some other intelligent beings found and deciphered it. But the point I was making is that the data is not (for the most part) stored in brains. It is stored in other places like books, databases, and web pages. >I'd say that people (and our institutions like schools and universities) are >indeed necessary to 'carry' knowledge... And btw this also why knowledge >management systems so often fail. I think that the people are needed to use it. Just the understanding of it has no value anyway, unless we put it into practice.
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