In an article on the exponential growth of knowledge, David Russell Schilling wrote: Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months. According to IBM, the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours. Of course, all knowledge is not of equal value. There are some things that we can live without knowing but there is other information that can be invaluable to us. How do we do about acquiring it? As you begin a new year, how will you go about acquiring the knowledge that will...
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