Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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