Knowing What We Know
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‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want
to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ‘An ebullient,
irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and
sprightly’Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia
to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten
classes?here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant
and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass
on information and data, and how technology continues to change our
lives and our minds. With the advent of the internet, any topic we
want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a
smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what
is there left for our brains to do? At a time when we seem to be
stripping all value from the idea of knowing things – no need for
maths, no need for map reading, no need for memorisation – are we
risking our ability to think? As we empty our minds, will we one
day be incapable of thoughtfulness? Addressing these questions,
Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored and
disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education,
journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and
broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusion –
from the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius
of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google and
Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundaneum, the
collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp
basement in northern Belgium. Studded with strange and fascinating
details, Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the
human mind. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us
to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this
knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information
without wisdom? Does René Descartes’ ‘Cogito, ergo sum’?'I think,
therefore I am’, the foundation for human knowledge widely accepted
since the Enlightenment?still hold? And what will the world be like
if no one in it is wise?
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Winchester Simon
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HarperCollins Publishers,
Winchester Simon
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