There will be no keynote at edACCESS 2010.
Keynote (2009)
Knowledge after Information
Presenter: David Weinberger
As the Information Age comes to a close, the nature of knowledge is changing. The Information Age and Western culture leading up to it have assumed that knowledge is scarce and hard to come by, but that it is also of the highest value when found. But now we are in a time of abundance of knowledge, information, insights, and opinions…but also of lies, deceptions, bias and foolishness. We are not going to be able to squeeze knowledge back into its old boundaries. Indeed, the new abundance may be transforming the nature, social role, and social effects of knowledge. In his keynote, David Weinberger will look at what knowledge is becoming in an age of abundance.
David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing".) Weinberger's work focuses on how the internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
A philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught college from 1980-1986. He was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976-1983. He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high-tech companies, and currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School,
where he co-teaches a class on "The Web Difference" with John Palfrey.
He had the title Senior Internet Advisor to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and provided technology policy advice to John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.