
1.3 The Age of Distributed Knowledge
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has been profoundly influenced by the emerging age of distributed
knowledge.
1.3 The Age of Distributed Knowledge
To almost no one’s surprise the Internet has transformed our perspective
on the nature and the availability of knowledge. Perhaps nowhere has this
change been more keenly felt than in the corridors of business. Modern
“chief technology” and “chief information” officers are struggling to fuse
seemingly diametrically opposed data management objectives: reliability,
availability, and integrity. At issue is the control of a corporation’s intellec-
tual property, which, as we move well into the next millennium, ...