An impression of the 2008 NFAIS Annual Conference and 50th Anniversary Gala,February 24-26, Philadelphia, PA

摘要

Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, started the open-ing key-note session with the provocative statement that the 'era of authority is over' in Beyond Au-thority. "Many of our basic assumptions about how ideas and information ought to be organized springfrom limitations on the physical, that simply don't apply in the digital, connected world. As we un-learn the old lessons and invent new principles of organization, the nature and role of authority is itselfchanging. While we will always need authenticated information, it is assuming a new role in our culture,thus altering the institutions and businesses that provide it. As with any important cultural transfor-mation, the new role may seem dangerous or even silly, but the change is nonetheless both profoundand liberating", David Weinberger argued "that the authority of knowledge is becoming social, politi-cized, fallible, and more truly reflective of human needs and human nature".