Comments on: From Information Literacy to Disconnection Literacy http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2006/05/21/from-information-literacy-to-disconnection-literacy/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:54:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Sarah Lipman http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2006/05/21/from-information-literacy-to-disconnection-literacy/#comment-105897 Sarah Lipman Sun, 21 May 2006 18:07:49 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2006/05/21/from-information-literacy-to-disconnection-literacy/#comment-105897 "Understanding and using...technology" actually requires disconnection: you can take in information through connection, but in order to truly create, or even to assemble that information in a novel form, you must disconnect so that you can work from the inside! The higher you go up the corporate hierarchy, the more you should be expected to be a "knowledge worker", whose contribution comes from what you can offer, not what you can take in... “Understanding and using…technology” actually requires disconnection: you can take in information through connection, but in order to truly create, or even to assemble that information in a novel form, you must disconnect so that you can work from the inside!

The higher you go up the corporate hierarchy, the more you should be expected to be a “knowledge worker”, whose contribution comes from what you can offer, not what you can take in…

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