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Dec 8, 1440
Printing press by Gutenberg
Gutenberg's printing press First printing of movable type in Europe. -
John Locke - Defining Knowledge.
John Locke delivers an insight into knowledge giving examples of types of knowledge and how to analyse them. -
Fritz Machlup - Knowledge Industry
Fritz Machlup states that knowledge is a commodity and looks at ways of measuring the size of tproduction and distribution within society. -
Michael Polanyi - Tacit Knowledge
Michael Polanyi looked at tacit knowledge and explained how
it is personal knowledge from our experiences. -
Marshall McLuhan - Technologically Determinist
http://nwlink.com/~donclark/history_knowledge/mcluhan.html Marshall McLuhan stated that the real message in communication is the medium. -
Peter Drucker - The Knowledge Worker - 1966
Peter Drucker had a belief that information would cause numerous changes within society. He believed that the largest group of workers would be what he called "knowledge workers" -
Daniel Bell - The Information Age
Daniel Bell believed in a theory he created known as a post-industrial society. He suggests we move from manufacturing to service economy and that knowledge, technology, and information become a key part of trading. -
Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave
Alvin Toffler published "The Third Wave" (1980). This spoke of new cultures surrounding information. The book focuses on human history. -
John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene - Information Society
John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene wrote the book megatrends. They stated that there are ten trends that would change and shape the age of information. -
HyperCard - Dynamic Programming
HyperCard and the introduction of hypertext. Information is stored on computers and then commands executed. -
The Internet - Network
The Internet became from advancement of an experiment constructed in the 60's. In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee and co workers created the basis for the internet we now know and use. -
Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger - Community of Practice
Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger stated that knowledge is linked to common interests and passions. They wrote their book Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. (1991) which gives details of their theory. -
Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuk - The Knowledge Spiral
Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuk Nonaka had a theory that knowledge is the result of four processes that create a cycle. they are: externalization, internalization, combination, and socialization. -
Karl-Erik Sveiby - Intellectual Capital
Karl-Erik Sveiby is responsible for the navigator. This is a ,ethod of reporting that looks at factors of a companies book value and compares it with its market value. -
Don Tapscott - Twelve Themes of the New Economy
Don Tapscott has produced books about topics such-as The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (1995) and rowing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation (1998). tHe stated there are twelve themese relating to the new economy. -
Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak - Velocity and Viscosity
Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak stated the meanings of velosity and viscosity.
Velocity - the speed with which knowledge moves through an organization.
Viscosity - the richness or thickness of the knowledge transferred. -
Knowledge History Graph
After looking at the data throughout the timeline i have discovered there are numerous imprtant dates throughout history which refer to knowledge. I have also learned that knowledge has 4 factors when being analysed.
They are:
Technology
Theme
Paradigm
Knowledge structure
