Our culture emphasizes measuring. What can be measured exists, and what is not measurable does not exist. What is known can be measured, and only measurable knowledge counts.
Wilk (2013) emphasizes eloquently that "the benighted ignoramuses" tell us that internet will make all human knowledge available to every human being on earth. What in reality is the case is that most knowledge is in a form that can never be reduced to print (or numbers). Most of what can be expressed in words or numbers never gets to be published in any form. What gets published is discovered by people who "are knowledgeable enough, and experienced enough to fully understand and make use of it." And what can be understood today, will soon be lost because the culture that holds the keys for comprehension will be gone. (Ibid.)
What Wilk talks about is something closely related to tacit knowledge, i.e. knowledge that is difficult or not possible to capture by means of writing or even by means of speech. Somehow contemporary cultural interpretations discard or even deny that what is not known or what cannot be known. These hidden aspects of reality get to be socially constructed as something not existing. This denial of relevant aspects of our realities can and will be a major issue and problem.
Massive corporate ICT systems are the fad today. We aim at capturing "everything" within these systems, believing that all relevant small and large organizational issues can be saved in numeric form, to be analyzed and utilized in decision making. The issue of the rigidity of such information handling systems vis-á-vis rapidly changing intra and extra organizational realities is something worth deep probing. What is the issue here is the distortion caused by believing that the truth is in there, within the systems, in numeric form. What is not in numbers, what is not known, not said, and cannot be expressed in words can be, and obviously is, something very relevant and should also be considered. (Säntti, 2013)
We obviously can conclude, that -- in opposition to whatever Financial Times says (Wilk, 2013) -- all knowledge will not be in internet or in corporate information systems, not now and not ever.
Säntti, R. (2013). Avoid getting caught a prisoner of Human Resource Information Systems. https://wiki.metropolia.fi/download/attachments/19507750/somepentujen_kasikirja.pdf?version=2&modificationDate=1363088776000
Wilk, J. (2013). The pageantry of the mind: content philosophy and a psychoanalytic point of view. In Frank Martela et al. Esa Saarinen Elämän filosofi.
https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/10888/isbn9789526052274.pdf?sequenc=1
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