למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

In the coming information age, when multimedia, interactive networking, personal communicators, virtual reality and unlimited bandwidth will all become everyday matters, we will need to think in a different way about knowledge and how it should be used. Supercomputers already manufacture information at speeds no human can match. In the science of quantum chromodynamics, which investigates fundamental particles, there are equations that can be completed, in less than the length of a human lifetime, only by a supercomputer.

In the near future, the rate of change will be so high that for humans to be qualified in a single discipline - defining what they are and what they do throughout their life - will be as outdated as quill and parchment. Knowledge will be changing too fast for that. We will need to reskill ourselves constantly every decade just to keep a job.

But these technologies will not enhance our lives if we are not prepared for them. And as the data in our knowledge-bases become ever more rapidly obsolete, it will be less important to "know" the data than to be able to access and relate them one to another. Because, as I hope this book shows, it is the interaction between data that causes change. The fundamental mechanism of innovation is the way things come together and connect.

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