November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

David Weinberger

About David Weinberger
Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Institute For Internet and Society – Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dr. David Weinberger writes about the effect of technology on our ideas. He is a co-author of the bestselling The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. His latest book is Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. He writes the well-known blog Joho. He is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Wired, Salon, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and many others. He is a commentator on National Public Radio and is a columnist for KMWorld and Il Sole 24 ore.

He has worked with startups to Fortune 500s as a strategic marketing consultant and VP. In 2004, he had the auspicious and over-stated title of Senior Internet Adviser to the Howard Dean campaign.

David has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He lives in Boston.

Keynote

Knowledge in the Age of the Internet

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.

Main Session Workshops

Keynote Follow-up

Learn more from Dr. Weinberger in this follow-up session to his keynote: Knowledge in the Age of the Internet.