We used to go to libraries and get information from books. So I ask, aside from the fact that I was told to never believe anything your read on the Internet and given that the Image is the new carrier of information, how do we know what we are reading is the truth?
"We stand at present on the crest of our own critical wave. From orality to textuality we now move towards a hypertextual, data-driven, digital, 'New Media' revolution. The impact that this revolution will have on the acquisition and transmission of language, and the effect in turn imparted upon mind and the matter of thought and consciousness are interesting in their own right. For my purposes though, and as a distant echo to some of Socrates’ concerns, I perceive the current digital momentum behind language and textual technology as a creative force that will fundamentally alter the 'written' model." A Polyptychal Discursion by Daniel Rourke
So if during this shift of knowledge, learning and information sharing we remain critical through art and free thought, the path of knowledge will remain true.
I am all for new ideas and as Bruce Mau states in his manifesto "Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead." So why not try Wolfram Alpha and make up your own mind.
Always question your sources, and to answer the question what is knowledge and who controls it? Perhaps the answer is in the process of learning through social and communal growth itself.
Useful Links:
http://spacecollective.org/Spaceweaver/4701/What-about-wisdom
A pair of Thylacines in Hobart Zoo prior to 1921 (Note that the male in the background is larger than the female)
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