Application Holy Wars - the Tech Writer List Manager's Nightmare
Thesis - "Holy Wars" Highlight Fundamental Changes in the Creation and Use of Knowledge 14
Karl Popper's Epistemology and Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions
Theory of Knowledge
Knowledge Revolutions
Paradigms and Incommensurability
Popper's Three Worlds
Technological and Conceptual Revolutions in Human Affairs
Biological Evolution vs Revolution
Revolutions that Reinvented the Nature of Humanity
Technological Revolutions
Cognitive Revolutions
Caveat
Transforming Data and Knowledge into Power
Measuring the Quantity of Information
Measuring the Qualitative Value of Different Kinds of Information
Adaptation and Knowledge in Popper's Three Worlds
The Cybernetics of Power: Boyd's OODA Loop Concept
The Revolution in Military Affairs
Evolutionary vs Revolutionary Adaptation
Tools and Applications that Extend Humanity's Cognitive Abilities
The First Printing Revolution: Replicating, Preserving and Disseminating Knowledge
The Second Printing Revolution: Automating Replication and Processing
Mechanical Data Processing and Calculating
First Generation Electronic Computers (1943-1955)
Second Generation Computers (1955 - 1964)
Third Generation Computers (1964 - 1971)
The Fourth Generation and Beyond
Tools to Capture Knowledge
Word processing (extending the paradigm of paper)
Calculators and spreadsheets (extending the paradigm of a paper spreadsheet)
Databases (extending the tabular paradigm to more than two dimensions)
Paper Paradigms and Microsoft's Waning Dominance of Personal Computing
Structured Authoring Adds Computer Readable Syntax and Semantics to Text
Typesetting Markup
Structural and Semantic Markup (Enabling the Structural Paradigm)
Tools to Store, Manage and Retrieve Preserved Knowledge
Books, Journals and Libraries
Library Catalogs Helped Individuals Find Books
Information Science
Disseminating, Indexing and Retrieving Scholarly, Scientific and Technical Knowledge
Computerising and Moving the Indexes On-Line
Indexing and Semantic Retrieval
The increasing cost of publishing and the limitations of libraries
The World Wide Web
Web Origins and History
Vannevar Bush's Memex
Tim Berners-Lee Invents the World Wide Web
Basic Web Tools
The Web Explodes
How Much Information Does the Web Hold?
Retrieving Value from the Web Semantically
Cataloging
Indexing
Using Portals
Multimedia
Wrapping Up the Web
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Emergence of Complex Autopoietic Systems
In the beginning...
Fluxes of Energy Drive Cosmic Evolution
The Emergence of Chaos and Complexity
Autocatalysis, Self-Regulation, Self-Production, Autonomy, Identity and Autopoiesis
Natural Selection and Descent With Modification
Origins and Importance of Systems of Heredity
Foundation Problems in Organizational Theory and Epistemology
Semantic issues
Epistemology in an Organizational Framework
Introduction to a Theory of Organizational Knowledge
Michael Polanyi's Concepts of Personal Knowledge vs Popper and Kuhn
An Epistemological Holy War
Knowledge: The Explicit - Tacit Dimension
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Organizations as Transcendent Entities
Initial Definitions of the Organization 88
Collective vs Transcendent Properties of the Organization: Self-Regulation and Autopoiesis 89
Cognition 91
Organismic Biology and Heredity 94
Autopoiesis and Membranes 96
Organizational Self-Production and Heredity 97
Other Organizational Paradigms 100
Organizational Knowledge, Learning, Adaptation and Evolution in a Competitive Environment 104
Categories of Organizational Knowledge 112
Classifying Organizational Knowledge 122
Building organisational knowledge, intelligence, wisdom and stategic power 126
Tools for Keeping Data and Establishing Organisational Memories 126
Data processing for large organisations 127
Turning Information into Organisational Knowledge 128
Making the Tacit Explicit 131
Corporate Knowledge, Intelligence and Feedback Build Corporate Power 131
Birth of the Cybercorp 133
Liberating Knowledge 135
Economics of scholarly publishing is stifling the growth of knowledge 135
The Move to Electronic Publishing and Retrieval 135
Research Libraries as Knowledge Publishers not Purchasers 138
The Free Literature Movement 138
The Knowledge Explosion 140
Automating the Growth of Knowledge, Intelligence and Wisdom 143
The Knowledge Growth Cycle 143
Artificial Intelligence 144
Another Look at the Knowledge Management Revolution 145
The Spike or a Point of Inflection? 146