Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed Networks
Driven by Human Interaction
The Internet has three significant capabilities beyond prior human-technological systems:
- The Net integrates the breadth of knowledge processes: information storage, communication of information, traditional computing of huge amounts of data, and human processing of limited but complex information. Until recently these were physically separated processes that required human action to integrate.
- The Net captures the depth of knowledge processes. The detailed signatures of the use of information are captured by the Net. This information was previously obtainable only at extreme cost.
- The Net transmits knowledge processes accurately. Verbal human-to-human communication results in a rapid loss of information a bit removed from its creator. By contrast, information exchanged or related on the Net, whether in web pages or emails, suffers minimal loss of information during transmission or linking, in the same way that the contents of a book or journal are not altered when exchanged.
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