The Digital Revolution Has Changed How We Think About Knowledge. Many Of Us Don’t Get That

“The net in fact exposes problems that have long lurked in our epistemology, problems that come into stark relief when knowledge is freed of paper, and we freely connect with it and through it across all boundaries of time and place. There’s something about how we’ve been thinking about knowledge — something inherent in traditional epistemology — that blinds Michael P. Lynch and many others to the knowledge-enhancing aspects of what’s happening on the screens in front of us.”