rhizomes and networks

my notes on 'too big to know'

Listening to David Weinberger's presentation

Traditionally knowledge has been stored in papers & books. This is 's unnatural, it is impossible to scale it. Ask an expert ->STOP!
According to this view, you know something when you have settled concepts, ideas, when you are able to categorize a notion and locate it within a framework of other related notions.

Now we have got a new medium: Internet, which is connective.
Properties of Internet (and consequently of knowledge):
- too much (overload and filters)
- messy (universe unique order <-> messiness is how we scale meaning!)
- unsettled
- unstructured.

what is a network? my notes

A network is composed of:
- entities or nodes
- connections or ties
- signals.

The concept of 'network' may refer to: Mathematics, Electric, electronic, biological, and biosocial.

Network properties:
density, speed, flow, plasticity, degree of connectedness.....

-> Network theory of knowldge (inspired also by neuroscience studies on brain)
-> Network theory of learning

Reading seminal paper by Siemens

Weak ties between disparate ideas and fields can bring to creativity and can create innovations.