When Diversity Strikes
In the previous chapter we followed on from research in complexity science about diversity, and looked at what happens when diversity is leveraged. Using a bilingual locale, we examined the complications and opportunities that arise when diversity is purs
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Thomas Petzold
Global Knowledge Dynamics and Social Technology
Thomas Petzold University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Business Administration (HMKW) Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-41233-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41234-4
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PROLOGUE: HOW TO UNLEASH THE TRUE MOMENTUM OF KNOWLEDGE!
Imagine you are on a journey and you are somewhere really, really remote. You are surrounded by stunning landscapes and an endless horizon. It is quiet and beautiful. Yet you’ve got no time to enjoy the surroundings because your car broke down, you have hardly any water, and you have almost no food left. What you really need in this situation is local knowledge about where and how to find something to drink and eat (Fig. 1)1. . . . Of course, when you travel in remote parts of the world today, you carry a satellite mobile device with you. So, you could google it. But chances are high that you may not find the most suitable information— that is, local knowledge from people who have lived in this part of the world for a very long time. Local knowledge is stored in more than 6,000
Fig. 1 Dependency from local knowledge. (Illustration by Sven-Norman Bommes-Böhmig)
Transcript from the author’s TED Talk, Berlin, 23 November 2012; available from: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxBerlin-Thomas-Petzold-36-2. v
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PROLOGUE: HOW TO UNLEASH THE TRUE MOMENTUM OF KNOWLEDGE!
Fig. 2 Local knowledge in more t
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