Miscellaneous==Everything
From David Weinberger’s new book Everything is Miscellaneous:
Paper drives thought into our heads. The Web releases thoughts before they’re ready so we can work on them together. (p 203)
The trust we place in the [Encyclopedia] Brittanica enables us to be passive knowers: You merely have to look a topic up to find out about it. But Wikipedia provides the metadata surrounding an article…because it expects the reader to be actively involved… (p 142)
…the Internet makes knowledge as instantly available as a calculator’s ‘equals’ button. (p 215)
It’s a very interesting book!


