Talk:Knowledge Revolution

Original
I think this is either original research or an excerpt from an obscure book

Pzone (talk) 01:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Weird
this looks like some weird stuff someone made up

Opinion poll

 * Merge - as per first comment in discussion. Jonpatterns (talk) 14:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge - happy with that, although not much of the material is referenced so little should survive Snowded  TALK 15:23, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Do Not Merge - there's a big difference between knowledge economy and the theory of knowledge economics. The Knowledge Revolution would include the theory as well as work coming out of Communications, IT, Media and Learning.  For example, "Too Big to Know (Weinberger)."  All of this can be encompassed by looking at knowledge as a resource.  But only part of it is captured within an economy. LynnIlon (talk) 14:39, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Do Not Merge - we also have separate articles for information revolution & information economy. One reason for why they should be kept separate is that the knowledge economy articles is about the knowledge-centric economy in general and this article about the shift of importance of knowledge in the economy as well as in other areas. Also the knowledge revolution isn't just about value-creation etc but also a change in knowledge production, distribution and importance etc. The article just needs more work. --Fixuture (talk) 20:26, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge — in order to have a proper case name (Knowledge Revolution instead of knowledge revolution) there needs to at least some tribe of joint historical consensus around this as a coherent conceptual epoch. My issue is not that there hasn't been a knowledge-centric revolution, it's with the historicity of a Knowledge Revolution as a coherent analytic concept, over and above the many conjoined concepts, such as the information revolution. This either has to be brought up to a standard where it could be linked from technological revolution (it isn't now), or it needs to not exist as a distinct page. &mdash; MaxEnt 04:15, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Discussion
Knowledge revolution is referenced in some mainstream media, (ie. Forbes). Although, there is a social aspect, most/all theories deal with economics. As such it is the same subject as Knowledge economy. Jonpatterns (talk) 14:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Needs considerable updating. Some of the sources are a bit obscure. There is a lot of work coming out from main-stream sources which are not cited. Work in the field now includes how to measure digitized productivity, innovation and new definitions of efficiency. There is considerable new work on social welfare with inclusion of new views of learning. Adapative efficiency, complexity, and new definitions of knowledge coming from various sources. Also, stemming from biology and networking, social learning and social networking, power law and crowd sourcing. I don't think it is stretch to call this a revolution, but there needs to be serious work on this topic. A little too busy right now to do it myself. LynnIlon (talk) 19 February 2017 (UTC)


 * It needs deleting. The primary reference is to a new age speaker,   Reference to John Seeley-Brown, Charles Savage and Tom Stewart all comprise synthesis or original research as none of those three to my knowledge (and I know them all) would use the phrase to designate a movement, it might at best be a throw away comment.  I don't see any valid, reliable third party sources that establish this is a legitimate topic.  If there are please list them otherwise I think it needs to be deleted.  Snowded  TALK 05:25, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

It seems to me "knowledge revolution" is either how a "knowledge economy" comes about, or is a happier way of saying the same thing. Definitely seems like the two articles should be merged. -- Beland (talk) 20:52, 18 June 2019 (UTC)