Let´s locate the greatest vulnerability of the „knowledge economy“. Easy. It´s ignorance. In a globalized and digitized world, we are awash in what might be called “microknowledge” (databases, financial transactions, music downloads,…) and “macroknowledge” (meaning the great forces that move history, like the impact of new ideas, mass movements and technologies, canges in social systems, the transformation of cultures,…).
We are in the dark about the future. Most arrived by stealth. Describe the modern economy by any label you wish: post-industrial society, the knowledge economy or globalization. By any name, it´s still hostage to large unknowns. Hype through using buzzwords on short notice!
It is an apt caution now. Just because the world economy can be bound together by the declining cost of information –more microknowledge- doesn´t mean that the process will go smoothly or be stable. Global prosperity depends on more than supply and demand. Vital conditions seem shaky, like political consensus among major countries or a successful economic system in political framework.
The stealth factor is a type of reminder and should make us think, it is a warning against overconfidence and a blind faith in technological determinism. It reminds us of the limits of our knowledge. So how to become an “enabler” in our knowledge econmy? How to use new methods of working together? How to organize our changing working conditions and manage the information flood?

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