Knowledge and technology

Question 1

How has technology had an impact on collective memory and how knowledge is preserved?

Answer 1

Scope

Question 2

What is the difference between “data”, “Knowledge”, and “information”?

Answer 2

Scope

Question 3

How are online or virtual communities similar/ different from traditional communities of knowers?

Answer 3

Perspectives

Question 4

Do special networks reinforce our existing perspective rather than boosting our engagement with diverse perspective?

Answer 4

Perspective

Question 5

How does technology extend or transform different modes of human cognition and communication?

Answer 5

Methods and tools

Question 6

To what extent are the technologies such as the microscopes and telescopes merely extensions to our human senses, or do they introduce radically new ways of seeing the world?

Answer 6

Methods and tools

Question 7

How might tech exacerbate or mitigate unequal access, and divides in our access, to knowledge?

Answer 7

Ethics

Question 8

Does the existence of the deep web influence our view on whether some knowledge should remain a secret or largely inaccessible?

Answer 8

Ethics