Talk:Knowledge society

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[edit] References

This article desperately needs notes and references for the claims/ideas. Some of it seems to be based on the article by David and Foray that is linked at the bottom. I don't know enough to help. -- MikeGasser (talk) 19:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the above. The comprehensive definition of the recent UNESCO world report might help a lot, see the link I added -- Balthas (talk)

[edit] Freedom

Don't know of a better outlet for this bit than here, so: "1. Knowledge by nature is free." Knowledge is not free by nature. Support 1: Intelligence and perception being, prerequisites for knowledge, are not equally distributed. Some individuals require supplementation to produce useful knowledge (as in, distilled information) while others may not even be capable of producing useful knowledge. Therefore, something that one person has and another cannot obtain is by nature not free. Support 2: If I produce a private bit of knowledge that provides me a benefit without violating someone else's rights, why should my right to privacy be violated so that anyone else can have my bit of knowledge?

I'd recommend removing the section on freedom until some quality references have been found discussing freedom of knowledge and those specific debates. [step, 19 September 2007] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.135.30.254 (talk) 22:23, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Freedom... 2. Knowledge should be free for better benefit of society." Although a noble sentiment, this seems unencyclopedical to me. Who says knowledge should be free? Who disagrees? Where did these four rules come from?

As a non-expert, for me the term knowledge society in no particular context suggests "global knowledge society" for which there is no entry yet though Knowledge economy seems to be close. i.e. for me knowledge society refers to the generic networked (global) society whose economy is knowledge based. The current Wikipedia text for knowledge society seems similar to my understanding of Community of practice or possibly Community of interest. There are stubs for Free Knowledge Community/Libre Knowledge Community which have similar meaning to the current wording of knowledge society (though with a specific philosophy about freedom and knowledge). People interested in taking this further might find some of the references at Libre Knowledge useful (most notably Yochai Benkler's book The Wealth of Networks). Kctucker 13:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Being an amateur in this area but studying the closely related area of knowledge management I'd agree with the comment above and rather link the knowledge society to knowledge economy and identify it as a post-industrial epoque in the history of social society.