Knowledge Age
As much as I enjoy Apple technologies, I can’t help but laugh at their current home page advert. “Subscribe to thousands of podcasts…” Who could possibly subscribe to thousands of anything? OK, I’m being a bit willful in my (mis)reading of their copy, but one of these days somebody is going to figure out that information is not knowledge.
I am now coming to the realization that, without some form of structure, the Information Age is nothing but a metaphor for shattered consciousness. Some days I sit at my machine and wander aimlessly through the infoscape. One link leads to another, and my clickpath resembles that of a slowly freezing and delerious victim of a ditched car in a blizzard. You wind up going in circles and little stays with you.
The Knowledge Age will be the realisation of the promise of the Information Age. Leaving aside the obvious compaint that the Golden Age is always just over the horizon, what does the Knowledge Age look like? UNESCO has an idea.
