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The future of ‘knowledge’?

I was thinking over this quote I stumbled upon yesterday;

The difference between IM and KM is the difference between a recipe and a chef, a map of London and a London cabbie, a book and its author.

from: http://jbordeaux.com/im-v-km/

I remembered a picture (below) I came across last year, about the development/growth of the Web, not in quantity, but in quality and potential. As the web grows into a Web 4.0 or 5.0 “Knowledge Web”, how would that look like?

The Hyperweb

Just this weekend someone showed me his new iPhone 4s with Siri and I think it already shows a little of this future ‘Web of Knowledge’. If the cabbie is knowledge, and the map is information, what then is Google Maps fueled by Siri? Or even better: A Google Car with Siri and TomTom or Navigon integrated?

The question is then: what types of knowledge cannot be captured by databases? Or interpreted by Siri or Watson? And how does that influence the way we learn and develop ourselves?

Sense, Essence, and Existence: Knowledge question on Quora

s33:

Knowledge: How do you perceive knowledge, is it an object that need to be preserved or process that need to be managed?

I perceive that the word ‘knowledge’ has several connotations. To know something can be contingent upon a memory of an experience of having learned something. This kind of…