Knowledge and Material Culture

Our society has created a gigantic amount of knowledge in the form of data, papers, books, speeches, images, and more ? everything stored in that entity that we call the ?cloud, ? appropriately, because clouds tend to evaporate and disappear. This book goes to the core of such fundamental questions as what knowledge is and how we acquire, verify and pass it on. It examines the material basis of what allows us to maintain knowledge in a vital form.