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Jan 1, 1440
Gutenberg's printing press
SourceSource found hereIn 1440 Gutenberg crerated a moveable print, with a seperate block for each character to be printed. This meant that books could be printed with ease and speed. Making the printing press the first means of mass communication. It also meant a spread of knowledge and a rise in literacy due to the speed and cheap cost at which it could reach the hands of the masses. -
John Locke, Defining knowledge
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John Locke claimed that we have no knowledge past our ideas. He viewed humans as having sense organs that when stimulated produce "ideas of sensation". These ideas are then
operated by our minds to produce "ideas of reflection". He further sepertates ideas into simple and complex ideas. Complex ideas are compounds of simple ideas. -
Fritz Machlup - Knowledge Industry - 1962
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Marshall McLuhan - Technologically determinist
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Technology shapes us rather than people dictating how technology will be used. -
Michael Polanyi - Tacit knowlege
Photo sourceTacit Knowledge cannot normally be spoken but rather demonstrated and imitated. -
Peter Drucker - The Knowledge worker
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Major changes would be brought about through information. Knowledge has become central. -
Daniel Bell - The information age
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As we move from producing goods, theoretical knowledge and information become a commodity. -
Alvin Toffler - The third wave
Photo sourceNew culture that is base upon information. Toffler believes that although human hiatory is complex and contradictory can be seen to fit certain patterns, which he classifies as three waves. -
John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene - Information Society
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Humanity is shifting from an industrial society to an information society. -
Hypercard - Dyanmic programming
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Apple computers created hypertext and introduced in on their hypercard program. Its power lies in ease of use. Information is arranged into stacks and the arranged into cards. Each card can then be linked together. -
Internet - Network
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CERN used a protocol based on hypertext, and unlike apple used hypertext to network on a large scale. -
Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger - Community of Practice
Photo SourceKnowledge can be developed through social and communal interests and passions. Innovation ies between the interaction of these communities.
There is three dimension to define a community of practice, that go through five stages. -
Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuk - The Knowledge Spiral
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Knowledge is the continous cycle of four processes. Externalisation, internalisation, combination, and socialisation. These are interdependant and can change depending on context and situation. -
Karl-Erik Sveiby - Intellectual Capital
Photo sourceSveiby claims that a traditional balance sheet does measure the real value of a company. He creates a new way to easure taking the businesses book capital with its market value. The difference is said to be the dollar value of what he calls "intellectual capital". -
Don Tapscott - Twelve Themes of the New Economy
Photo source12 themes that differenciate the old economy from the new. These are
Knowledge, Digital, Virtual, Molecularisation, Disintermediation, Convergence, Innovation, Prosumption, Immediacy, Globalization, and Discordance -
Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak - Velocity and Viscosity
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Velocity is the speed at which knowledge moves through an organisation. Viscosity is the richness of which the knowledge is transferred
