Talk:Knowledge society
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This article desperately needs notes and references for the claims/ideas. Some of it seems to be based on the article by David and Foray that is linked at the bottom. I don't know enough to help. -- MikeGasser (talk) 19:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree with the above. The comprehensive definition of the recent UNESCO world report might help a lot, see the link I added -- Balthas (talk)
"Freedom... 2. Knowledge should be free for better benefit of society." Although a noble sentiment, this seems unencyclopedical to me. Who says knowledge should be free? Who disagrees? Where did these four rules come from?
As a non-expert, for me the term knowledge society in no particular context suggests "global knowledge society" for which there is no entry yet though Knowledge economy seems to be close. i.e. for me knowledge society refers to the generic networked (global) society whose economy is knowledge based. The current Wikipedia text for knowledge society seems similar to my understanding of Community of practice or possibly Community of interest. There are stubs for Free Knowledge Community/Libre Knowledge Community which have similar meaning to the current wording of knowledge society (though with a specific philosophy about freedom and knowledge). People interested in taking this further might find some of the references at Libre Knowledge useful (most notably Yochai Benkler's book The Wealth of Networks). Kctucker 13:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
