| In recent years there has been a growing interest in the nature of knowledge, its structure, and its utilization. With the advent and eventual proliferation of computers and databases, knowledge has become a commodity embedded in our tools and in machines we use for everyday needs. We produce today more information (and knowledge) in one day than in all the years since the beginning of human civilization.
Imagine a situation where automobile manufacturers suddenly start producing worldwide more cars daily than in all of the hundred years since automobile production began. The existing infrastructure of roads and highways would certainly collapse—unless we are able to understand how such a flow of vehicles can be manipulated and tamed. Information and knowledge are generated today at an ever growing pace, in quantities and varieties that would have seemed inconceivable to our foreparents not more than two generations ago.
In the twilight years of the twentieth century, scholars and businesses have begun to address the issues of the generation, manipulation, and usages of knowledge. Soon there was a sense of urgency in the creation of knowledge management systems. These models and tools for dealing with the avalanche of knowledge in public and private organizations are still in their infancy—as are the theories and philosophies that underlie their principles and their functioning.
All these events are starting to congeal as critical components of a revised look at an age-old intellectual pursuit of so many scholars over the ages: what is knowledge, how is it structured, and how does it progress. Increasingly, knowledge is permeating every aspect of routine living in developed economies. Its sheer volume and its growing complexity and variability are challenging even the philistines to ponder such hitherto academic queries. |
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