Historically knowledge was tribal,local,isolated. Just within the last one hundred years knowledge has become international, global, integral. Perhaps now we can look beneath the surfaces of knowledge to discern archetypal patterns that will be evolutionary, universal, visionary.

Particularly, when you recognize that “the idea of knowledge is not as obvious and eternal as we’ve thought” – it is challenging to write about its overload !
The knowledge may easily be a moving target in your analysis.

After Bellinger’s pivotal article “Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom” (http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm) we assumed knowledge (in IT) is born out of information – when we are able to answer “how” question with its help. Usually we go to the knowledge by understanding patterns in the information. It is still NOT an understanding of principles – which brings us to higher levels than knowledge.

In this context – I am thrilled to bits to read about undoing or “unnailing” of knowledge. Does the chapter imply that today our (information) PATTERN recognition is such unreliable, or is a manifold of contradicting inferences – that this causes knowledge overload ?