Book of the Week: KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW by Simon Winchester
Book of the Week: Knowing What We Know: The transmission of knowledge, from ancient wisdom to modern magic by Simon Winchester
How do we acquire knowledge, first-hand or otherwise? How do we store and sort this knowledge, both inside and outside our heads, and how do we make this knowledge available to others? With advances in technology that have immersed us in a limitless sea of information, what is there left for our brains to do? How do different technologies change the way we think of the world, and of each other? Who controls our experience of information, and to what end? Simon Winchester’s new book asks — and answers — some very important — and interesting — questions.