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The Inconvenience of Truth

During the April 2007 Education.AU tour of Australia’s capitol cities with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), I opened the afternoon panel & workshop sessions with a brief talk about peer-produced knowledge – and how it doesn’t necessarily lead to the truth.

Here it is – with my slides, rather than video footage of me behind a podium (which would be rather dull in any case).

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  1. Too many topics, too little time. » hyperpeople » Blog Archive » The Inconvenience of Truth Says:
    July 16th, 2007 at 8:51 am

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  2. Psybertron Asks » Knowledge is War Says:
    July 18th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    [...] We know Bacon coined the idea that knowledge is power around 1600, so not surprisingly, Mark Pesce’s talk on Hyperpeople “The Inconvenience of Truth” concludes that so long as their are parties with different interests, knowledge is in fact war. A warning that a collaborative on-line encyclopedia like Wikipedia can never be the whole truth, just a concensus truth where interests are uncontentious. [...]

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