About This Book

- 📜 **Major Knowledge Milestones**: Key historical changes in knowledge systems include the invention of writing, printing, and the rise of computers and the Internet, each bringing unpredictable consequences. - 🧠 **Social Context of Knowledge**: Knowledge is influenced by social class and cultural context, with different types of knowledge (e.g., pure vs. applied, local vs. universal) coexisting and sometimes conflicting within societies. - 🔍 **Information vs. Knowledge**: Information is seen as raw data, while knowledge is processed and contextualized; the distinction highlights the importance of understanding how information is interpreted and transformed. - 🌍 **Geopolitics of Knowledge**: The study of knowledge encompasses not only its production and distribution but also the exploration of lost or rejected knowledge, emphasizing the variety of knowledge histories across cultures. - 📚 **Authority in Knowledge**: Certain authorities define what counts as knowledge, influencing which ideas are accepted or rejected, and shaping the landscape of knowledge across time and cultures.

Top Highlights

• Changes of this kind have unpredictable consequences, both for better and for worse.
• information is only relatively raw, since the so-called ‘data’ are not objectively ‘given’ at all, but perceived and processed by human minds that are full of assumptions and prejudices.
• printing with moveable type
• In his book The Advancement of Learning (1605), and its longer, later Latin version, De Augmentis Scientiarum, the philosopher, lawyer and politician Francis Bacon expounded a plan for the reform of knowledge,
• learning’); how knowledge travelled,