Information, knowledge and the future of machines (Part 2)

摘要

Imagine that you are standing in any big library, say before the stacks of technology-related journals. The knowledge with which the library is filled is very difficult to access, and even more difficult to turn quickly into illuminating insight or to put to practical use. You are surrounded by information, but what you need is agency. This - the difficulty of harnessing such forms of objective knowledge to useful effect - poses a very real and a very formidable problem.