David Weinberger and Knowledge

Joho the Blog author David Weinberger is holding forth in a semi-keynote at SXSW, and (as he told me earlier today) he’s put some new material in his always entertaining riff.

Key thought: The analog world is messy and imprecise. The digital world is unambiguous, a good and bad thing.

“We’re beginning to miss ambiguity,” he says. Yes.

What does the Web remind us of? “Ourselves, when we’re at our best.”

He should record this, slides and all, and make it available on a streaming site and for download.

  • NOTE: Cory Doctorow, bless him, has put up a bunch of Wi-Fi access points around the Austin convention center’s panel rooms. Which is why you’re reading this…

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