you are really dumb fo real

“The smartest person in the room is the room.” At first glance this quote doesn’t really seem to make sense. But when you sit down and think about it and maybe read a little more by Weinberger, it becomes this really cool concept. 

Well at least to me it does. Weinberger claim that it is the network that makes us smarter. It is the network that brings us this knowledge. Which to me conjures up this image of this “network” beast that just absorbs knowledge. It’s just there soaking up all that the rest of us have to offer and it’s amazing. This network connects everybody, so while you may think you are the smartest person in the room, which makes you kind of an asshole, it’s that connection that is really the smartest. 

He is promoting the sharing of ideas, he wants us to wake up and see the things going on around us. He says “the new way of knowing is becoming apparent” which makes sense to me because, no one can know everything but everyone can know something. And if we all connect and share and grow, we all become smarter. But we need this smart room, or network to do so and we need to do it properly. Because as he says if we do it wrong it will make us dumber.  

These rooms, these networks hold all of the knowledge we seek, they are to me the keeper of all things we need to know. So let’s get out there and create smart rooms and powerful networks.