The document discusses how knowledge grows through networks and groups. It argues that knowledge is produced at boundaries between groups through contact and conflict. While larger networks can enable greater growth of knowledge, they also face challenges of discoverability, silos, and trust. Productive knowledge growth requires the right local network structures and institutions that support boundaries and conflict between groups. Diversity is important for knowledge creation, but so is community and identity, which encourage some level of exclusion. The right balance must be struck between opening and closing networks.
43. Lotman’s stages of reception
1. Exoticism
2. Translation/Adaption
3. Abstraction
4. Dissolution
5. Re-transmission
Yuri Lotman (2009)
Dialogue Mechanisms in Universe of the Mind
70. Many of the discussions of the future at
CERN and the LHC era end with the
question – “Yes, but how will we ever keep
track of such a large project?”
71. Many of the discussions of the future at
CERN and the LHC era end with the
question – “Yes, but how will we ever keep
track of such a large project?”
https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
103. This process – of ever-widening, concentric
circles – allows a drip-feed of stories to a
wider audience, even as a specific heritage
is both consolidated and enhanced.
Scott (2015) Not so easy, Griffith Review, 47