Chapters
- Chapter 1: Seeking Balance in a Digital Storm
- Bathing in Bits
- Today’s Scarcest Resource
- False Promises of Technology
- Information and Your Health
- Knowledge or Null Edge?
- Further Reading
- Chapter 2: Phoenicians, Gutenberg and the Mark I
- Prehistoric Codification
- Codification Shift #1: The Alphabet
- Codification Shift #2: The Printing Press
- Codification Shift #3: The Computer
- The Concept of Singularity
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Further Reading
- Chapter 3: I’m Thirsty–More Knowledge, Please
- Knowledge As a Means of Survival
- Nobody Wants to Be Left Out
- Be Careful What You Ask For
- Allocating Your Attention Span
- Information Obsession
- Further Reading
- Chapter 4: Cumulative Codified Information Base
- Eleven Hours
- Practical Life Issues
- Human Capacity for Information
- Computer Capacity for Information
- Further Reading
- Chapter 5: The Marginal Cost is Zero
- Product Distribution
- Communication Distribution
- The Cost of Distribution
- Managing Barriers
- Exploiting Our Hunger
- Further Reading
- Chapter 6: Nobody’s Job Is Safe
- From One Era to the Next
- Technology: A Good Thing?
- Getting Comfortable With Change
- The Power of Re
- The Invisible Threat of Industry Displacement
- Further Reading
- Chapter 7: The Digital Blitzkrieg
- Individual Ramifications
- Group Ramifications
- Organizational Ramifications
- Institutional Ramifications
- A New Age With New Threats
- Further Reading
- Chapter 8: Democratization and Super-Penetration
- Democratization of Information
- Global Internet Penetration
- The Phenomenon of Super-Penetration
- International Leapfrog
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Internet Age
- Further Reading
- Chapter 9: Are You Sure You Can Read?
- Literacy and the Internet
- False Assumptions
- False Assumption #1: Everyone Around You Can Read
- False Assumption #2: English Is the Most Common Language
- False Assumption #3: Language Skills Don’t Require Practice
- Multilingualism
- Be Proactive by Advancing Your Literacy
- Further Reading
- Chapter 10: My Home Is My Castle
- The Role of Television in the Home
- The Role of Computers in the Home
- Integration System
- Say Hello to Nancy
- Search Costs
- Home: A Sanctuary or a Thoroughfare
- Further Reading
- Chapter 11: What Did My Toilet Just Say?
- Location, Location, Location
- IP Addresses
- Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID Tags)
- GPS (Global Positioning System)
- Devices
- Wearing a Suit of Information
- Further Reading
- Location, Location, Location
- Chapter 12: Car Accident (A Fable)
- Chapter 13: Impact at the Individual Level
- Relationships
- Personal Security
- Mental Health
- Physical Health
- The Push and Pull of Information
- Further Reading
- Chapter 14: Impact at the Group Level
- Knowledge Is Power
- Sharing Versus Hoarding
- Culture’s Influence Over Knowledge Sharing
- Factors Encouraging Knowledge Sharing
- Incentive Structures
- The Inherent Natures of Group Members
- Members’ Feelings of Security
- The External Environment
- IGO Learning
- Further Reading
- Chapter 15: Impact at the Organization Level
- Human Capital
- Structural Capital
- Relational Capital
- Threats to Organizational Learning
- Attrition
- Turnover
- Opportunity Costs
- Knowledge Obsolescence
- Duplication Costs
- The Next Step
- Further Reading
- Chapter 16: Impact at the Institutional Level
- Institutional Knowledge Management
- A Culture of Information Sharing
- Security and Privacy Issues
- Institutions Are Ultimately Composed of Individuals
- Costs of Poor Knowledge Management
- Hurricane Katrina
- Great Recession
- 9/11
- War in Iraq
- A Positive Note
- Further Reading
- Chapter 17: Individual Prescriptions
- Use Rule Wizards
- Push Alerts
- Receiver Customization
- Speed Reading
- Further Reading
- Chapter 18: Group Prescriptions
- Socialization
- Knowledge Cafés
- Dynamic Corporate Yellow Pages
- Knowledge Exchange Auctions
- Further Reading
- Chapter 19: Organizational Prescriptions
- Diagnosing E-Flow
- Appointing Senior Leadership
- Developing Causal Models
- Entry and Exit Interviews
- Further Reading
- Chapter 20: Institutional Prescriptions
- Benchmarking and Metrics
- Alumni Networks
- Macro Wikinomic Tools
- Practicing Accountability
- Further Reading
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