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Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
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Columbia
Missouri
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