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Jan 1, 1400
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Welcome! All the information gathered to create this timeline was taken from A Brief History of Information and Knowledge -
Jan 1, 1440
Gutenberg's Printing Press
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Gutenberg's Press Moveable printing had existed in East Asia since 1377 when the Jikji, a Korean Buddhist document was printed in Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty, though the invention hadn't reached Europe yet where the readings were crafted by hand and wood blocks. In 1440 Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press allowing many copies of books to be made at once. -
John Locke - Defining Knowledge
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - John Locke John Locke (1632-1704) indicated what knowledge is all about. "ideas of sensation" is what Locke believed we had, stimulated through sense organs. Our minds operate on these ideas to create “ideas of reflection.” The ideas come to us via the information we get from our senses -
Fritz Machlup - Knowledge Industry
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Fritz Machlup Fritz Machlup (1902-1983) worked in two major areas of economics: industrial organization and international monetary economics. Machlup defines knowledge as a commodity and attempts to measure the magnitude of the production in the modern economy. Machlup recognized knowledge as a information source instrumental, intellectual, and pastime knowlede -
Michael Polanyi - Tacit Knowledge
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Michael Polanyi Genius is applying the originality of youth to the experience of maturity. - Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), was one of the most well known philosophers in the 20th century, he was also a physical chemist. Polanyi researched into Tactic Knowledge and came to the conclusion that it cannot be reproduced nor spoken but only demonstrated -
Marshall McLuhan - Technologically Determinist
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was famous for declaring that the medium is the real message. Later in life he came to a different conclusion, Paul Saettler (The Evolution of American Educational Technology) writes that "McLuhan's provocative pronouncements stimulated much of the creative thought that we now have about media" -
Peter Drucker - The Knowledge Worker
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Peter Drucker Peter Drucker predicted that changes in society would be caused by information. He argued that knowledge has become a key resource. According to Drucker, the largest working group were termed the "knowledge workers". He believed that the characteristics of the knowledge workers came from their formal education -
Daniel Bell - The Information Age
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Daniel Bell Daniel Bell was one the most famous sociologist of our time. he came up with the concept of a post-industrial society or in his book "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973)" He then re-named this concept to the information society, he is considered the creator of the term (1979). By an information society, Bell meant that we move from a producer of goods -
Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Alvin Toffler Alvin Toffler published "The Third Wave" (1980) to intise new cultures based on information.Toffler's bookis about human history, while being complex and contradictory, can be seen to fit the "three waves" that describe changes in civilization -
John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene - Information Society
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Naisbitt & Aburdene In Naisbitt's and Aburdene's book "Megatrends" they proposed ten trends that would change and shape the information age Industrial Society to Information Society Forced Technology to High Tech/High Touch National Economy to World Economy Short Term to Long Term Centralization to Decentralization Institutional Help to Self-Help -
HyperCard - Dynamic Programming
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - HyperCard Apple computer introduces hypertext to the public with the HyperCard. Creator Ben Atkinson hales it's ease of use. It works by a system of a cards arranged into stacks, the cards can link and react with eachother like hypertexts on the internet. , The HyperCard database is quite graphical, its a unique tool for accessing information in a nonlinear way -
The Internet - Network
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - The Internet The internet as we know it is key of sharing and has become the most used piece of technology in the 21st century. It grew as an experiment begun in the 1960's by the U.S. Department of Defense, though it had two steps before being perfected. In 1971 Ray Tomlinson wrote the first mailing programme and in 1985 the National Science Foundation (NSF) created NSFNET -
Lave & Wenger - Community of Practice
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Lave & Wenger Lave & Wenger theorized that knowledge can be developed through social and spontaneous communities that revolve around interests and passion A community of practice defines itself along three dimensions:
What is it about?
How it functions?
What capability it has produced? -
Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuk - The Knowledge Spiral
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Nonaka & Takeuk Nonaka and Takeuk theorized that the creation of knowledge is the result of a continuous cycle of four processes: externalization, internalization, combination, and socialization, these change on demand of content and sequence -
Karl-Erik Sveiby - Intellectual Capital
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Intellectual Capital Sveiby developed the "Navigator" a reporting concept that considers a number of indicators that attempts to compare a company's book value with its market value, The Intellectual capital is the difference between the market and book value of a company. -
Don Tapscott - Twelve Themes of the New Economy
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Don Tapscott Tapscott wrote 12 key features that about digital communicating
Knowledge
Digital
Virtual
Molecularization
Internetworking
Disintermediation
Convergence
Innovation
Prosumption
Immediacy
Globalization
Discordance -
Davenport & Prusak - Velocity and Viscosity
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - Davenport & Prusak Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak theorized the concept of Velocity and Viscosity. Velocity - the speed with which knowledge travels through an organization. Viscosity - the richness or thickness of the knowledge transferred. -
History of Knowledge
A Brief History of Information and Knowledge - The Five Themes of Knowledge Management Framework Therefore, in conclusion the history of knowledge can be divided into four categories; Technology
Era
Paradigm
Knowledge Structure
