David Weinberger Quotes
With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.
Weinberger, David. "The Inevitability of the Miscellaneous: An Interview with David Weinberger." Interview by Gerry Bayne. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007.
Jewish males were obligated to learn the Torah as well as teach it. However, the issue of payment was then and still is controversial. Although Maimonides was the lead Cairo Rabbi, he took no fees or other benefits for his spiritual activities. He made his living as a Physician. The same debate ranged through Muslim and Christian sects. It was one of the issues that pitted the Quakers against some other Christian sects. See {611246}
The first non-PRI President in over 70 years. This was one of Fox’s greatest achievements. Internet connectivity in every school at the time had not yet been achieved in the United States.
While Wikipedia has not yet reached every person in the world, it has already distributed more human knowledge than any other vehicle in human history. And all at no cost to the user. It is certainly the greatest volunteer intellectual effort in history.
David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American author, technologist, and speaker. Trained as a philosopher, Weinberger's work focuses on how technology — particularly the internet and machine learning — is changing our ideas, with books about the effect of machine learning’s complex models on business strategy and our sense of meaning; order and organization in the digital age; the networking of knowledge; the Net's effect on core concepts of self and place; and the shifts in relationships between businesses and their markets.
