Love this article by Ian Angell which echoes my feeling about so-called Knowledge Management. Here is my favourite snip.
“Many of the developers of so-called ‘intelligent systems’ have not yet grasped this reality. They see themselves at the forefront of the new technology that is spawning ‘Cyberspace,’ and yet they are drenched in the mind-set and ritual of the defunct machine age. Theirs is an arrogance that persists in spreading the malignant lie, that knowledge and intelligence can be disembodied, discerned through the application of logic and mathematical models, and finally automated. Bunkum! This is just the latest in a long line of nonsense, of ‘knowledge engineering,’ ‘data mining’ and ‘inference engines,’ that has been inflicted on a world made gullible through ritualized technology. Mega-millions of dollars have been wasted in the ‘knowledge scam,’ the futile quest to categorize common sense knowledge and basic human intelligence in this daft way. Thankfully it will soon be dumped in the garbage bin of technological history.”