Knowledge in evolution

Futures

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 915-919

  Anderson, Walter Truett ^a  

^a World Academy of Art and Science   (United States)

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EID: 34547622098     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2007.03.003     Document Type: Editorial

References (7)

1. I would be happy to provide a clear, authoritative and final definition of "information" and "knowledge" if there were one that mapped onto the usage in the works cited here. But the information-knowledge distinction is not at all clear in the public discourse, where the two terms are more or less synonymous. Some writers use "information" more in the sense of data capable of being stored in genes, books or electronic files; and "knowledge" with reference to its active life in human cognition and action; and others employ a hierchical definition, ascending upward from information through knowledge to wisdom. But no distinction is universally accepted or applied.
2. Bell D. The social framework of the information society. In: Forrester T. (Ed). The Microelectronic Revolution (1981), MIT Press, Cambridge 501
3. Rosell S.A. Renewing Governance: Governing by Learning in the Information Age (1999), Oxford University Press, Oxford, NewYork pp. 3-4
4. M. Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Rise of the Network Society, vol. 1, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 1996, pp. 92.
5. P. Drucker, Knowledge work and knowledge society: the social transformation of this century, The 1994 Edwin L. Godkin Lecture at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May 4, 1994. 〈http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress.news〈www.ksg.har vard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress.news〉.
6. W. T. Anderson, The Information Planet: A Report on Our Trip to Another World, Futures, June 2001.
7. Selected Writings of Paul Valery. New Directions, 1964.