Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

Knowledge isn’t what it used to be. For about 2,500 years, we have engaged in a multi-generational task of nailing knowledge down and building on what we knew. Ultimately heading toward a world of shared ideas and beliefs. Now, there are a billion opinions, a trillion facts, and they’re all yelling at one another. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Paper couldn’t hold everything we needed to know, so we created a strategy of knowing our world by reducing it. Now that knowledge’s medium is as big as knowledge itself, it’s also messy, connected, unsettled, and in constant argument with itself.
The question is how are we going to put the pieces back together again… and how can this be an opportunity to become smarter than ever as businesses, as a society, and as people.