Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic ~ SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
by Winchester, Simon
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- 0063142880
- ISBN 13
- 9780063142886
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FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Hardcover. Brand new, never read. Personally signed, directly to the full title page by the author, in black Sharpie, beneath his crossed out name. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket is hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world. New York Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes this is award winning writer Simon Winchester s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what is there left for our brains to do? At a time when we seem to be stripping all value from the idea of knowing things no need for math, no need for map-reading, no need for memorization are we risking our ability to think? As we empty our minds, will we one day be incapable of thoughtfulness? Addressing these questions, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography, and broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusion from the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google, and Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundanaeum, the collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp basement in northern Belgium. Studded with strange and fascinating details, Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the human mind. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom? Does Rene Descartes s Cogito, ergo sum I think therefore I am, the foundation for human knowledge widely accepted since the Enlightenment still hold? And what will the world be like if no one in it is wise?.
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- Title
- Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic ~ SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Winchester, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0063142880
- ISBN 13
- 9780063142886
- Publisher
- Harper
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed, collectible, autographed, history, knowledge, intelligence, world history
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