#future of knowledge

[pebblegalaxy]

Forgotten Knowledge Systems: Why Modern Intelligence Is Losing What It Once Knew

Forgotten Knowledge Systems: When Memory Becomes the Last Technology There is a point—rare, almost imperceptible—where reality begins to behave like myth. Not because the world changes, but because our ability to interpret it does. Forgotten Knowledge Systems begin exactly there: not with loss, but with misrecognition. A pattern is seen but not understood. A process is repeated but not…

Forgotten Knowledge Systems: Why Modern Intelligence Is Losing What It Once Knew

[maximumrunawaycloud]

Future of Education

The notions of cognitive development and knowledge transfer are inextricably linked to the concept of formal education. For a long time, these functions were considered the essence of education, but in recent decades, this notion has been challenged. It is no longer enough to have abstract knowledge; what matters now is what learners can do with it.

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[adammccauley]

Shifting Sands of Academia

Shifting Sands of Academia: Has international relations abandoned the search for novel ideas?

The demands of the academy can, at times, appear futile. This malaise is most acute when one’s ostensible “requirements” for continued professional development take them further away from the most inspiring avenues of their field. Reviewing literature for an upcoming essay, I came across a succinct (and edifying) critique leveled by international relations scholars, John Mearsheimer and Stephen…

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[pete-santiago]

Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for any notion in the library. We’ll come to understand that no work, no idea, stands alone, but that all good, true and beautiful things are networks, ecosystems of intertwingled parts, related entities and similar works.

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[youngfuturist]

"It seems to me that this is not a cause for despair. Rather, this is what the scientific project is. Knowledge in the Internet Age—networked knowledge—is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional, it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved. Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong—and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is."