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Subject:Re: Knowledge is manufactured? From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
I take disjoined and incomplete information from a variety of sources and come up with the comprehensive, integrated whole. Before my efforts, no one had a comprehensive, integrated whole. Therefore, I manufacture knowledge.
Richard Lewis
Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
If we're seen exclusively as dumb parrots who do nothing more than parrot back information created by someone else, we get no respect.
.......Only when we're seen as people who do significant knowledge creation
are we given full respect and compensated and cherished accordingly.
That's not just empty theory.
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