David Weinberger, whom I know via Jerry Michalski, was recently interviewed by Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo! about David's new book "Everything is Miscellaneous." David's blog about the book has some thoughts about the Yahoo! interview event which resonated with me:
After I’d gone on for a while, someone (sorry, I’m bad at names) asked what really motivated me. Very helpful question. I said that the Aristotelian assumptions, combined with the limitations of paper-based knowledge, lead to authority over knowledge being placed in the hands of a few. The few tend to be highly qualified and often selfless, but it still is a power regime. Although I didn’t say this last night, that’s why I am so enamored of the idea that fundamentally the Internet is ours. In fact, another way to say what the book is about would be: Everything Is Miscellaneous is about meaning becoming ours.
I haven't had the chance to read David's book yet (it's not our here in Japan) but I look forward to it. Yahoo! has the video of their conversation up here:
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