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David Weinberger
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David Weinberger is an American author and technologist who examines how the internet and machine learning change knowledge, organization, and business relationships.
Biography
David Weinberger, born in 1950, is an American author, technologist, and speaker trained as a philosopher. His work explores how technology, particularly the internet and machine learning, changes ideas and ways of understanding the world. His books address the organization of information in the digital age, the networking of knowledge, and the internet’s effects on concepts of self and place.
Weinberger also examines how complex machine-learning models affect business strategy and a sense of meaning, alongside changing relationships between businesses and their markets. In Too Big to Know, he considers how networked knowledge changes the roles of facts, books, and experts, drawing on its use in business, science, education, and government.
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Books by David Weinberger
Too big to know
Too Big to Know examines the shift from knowledge grounded in books and experts to knowledge distributed across networks. It explores how business, science, education, and government use networked knowledge to deepen understanding and inform decisions.