The New
Alexandrians
‘The
New Alexandrians ‘, a chapter taken from the book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration
Changes Everything written by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams depict the
dissemination of knowledge through YouTube, Wikipedia and other internet
facilities.
The
authors bring the history of ancient Alexandrian library which stored half
million volumes of books in one building, they also talk about the unfortunate
end of it and how it paved the way for the emergence of new technologies to
restore the lost books in digital forms.
Authors
claim that arrival of mass media changed the perceptions of people and it
helped them to revive and reconstruct their knowledge. Authors describe that
the New Alexandrians associates mass collaboration through the internet to
disseminate human faculties and information. The last four hundred years of
scientific enquiry enabled humans to think in advance and also accelerated the
growth of them in various fields.
Dan
Tapscott and Anthony Williams believe that mass collaboration in business and
other fields enable the companies to develop well. The human Genome project,
and other websites, offering insight to business on using open source
strategies to expand research and marketing success.
The
authors claim that sharing stories and information can build strong amity
between multinational companies, more over it can make a sea change in the
growth of every organization. They propose cooperation than conflict through
new inventions and innovations. Exchange, collaboration and dissemination of
information and sharing of technologies among talented individuals and
corporations can lead to a genuine explosion of knowledge.
The Enlightenment of the seventeenth century
led scientists, philosophers, mechanics and intellectuals entering into dynamic
debates and exchange of ideas. Establishment of modern technologies accelerated
the efforts tospread knowledge and information kindled by the enlightened thinkers.
According to the Authors theestablishment of shared foundation of knowledge
according to the New Alexandrians is the way to ensure innovation and success in the corporate world.
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