Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

by Simon Winchester

The new acronym DIKW signifies data, information, knowledge, and wisdom:

Thus did Johannes Gutenberg follow a rule that applies to this day: the books most likely to make money are the books that get published. All knowledge may well be equal, but the sheer cost of ensuring that it reaches its intended audience, whether in fifteenth-century Mainz or in twenty-first-century Manhattan, makes some parts of it more equal than others.