Ken Myers has written a brilliant article on the impact of our information age on our ability to acquire wisdom. An idiot is a person who is incapable of sharing knowledge with others. Just as true knowledge requires engagement, so it must have a shared quality. We must share knowledge through systems of ideas, in which knowledge is related and ranked. The crisis of information overload is finally a crisis of truth.
Wisdom is never simply the incremental acquisition of data.
Within a godly framework, information, properly engaged and set in context, yields knowledge. Knowledge in turn cultivates the achievement of wisdom. All rights reserved.