Story of the Week – Fox or Hedgehog, What Are You?

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Technology | Tags: digital, video, knowledge, literacy, i-Pad, innovation, management

Article of the week, by a hare’s breadth, is Ben McIntyre’s Fox or Hedgehog piece for The Times. Generously, for those who may have given up on reading in a digital age, Ben’s recorded a short video blog, so you can get the gist without all that grammar and words n’stuff.

If you have retained literacy as necessary facet of modern life, click on the link below – this is the best analysis of what makes for an info-literate citizen. If you’re a hedgehog, you’re toast!

McIntyre argues, accurately, that: “the torrent of internet information is forcing us to change the way we think.” He leans on Isaiah Berlin’s intellectual mantle and borrows Berlin’s assertion that: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

Navigating Data: Click here to read the article