knowings

Deep knowings in one technology can be levered into deep knowings in another.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Technology proceeds out of deep understandings of phenomena, and these become embedded as a deep set of shared knowings that resides in people and establishes itself locally—and that grows over time.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Such knowings root themselves in local micro-cultures: in particular firms, in particular buildings, along particular corridors.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

But Akron possessed from its rubber days a strong expertise in polymer chemistry the chemistry of chains of molecules, and it managed to lever this into a more general set of knowings, that of high-tech polymer manufacture.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

These mysteries, or shared knowings, are completely necessary for the processes I have been talking about: invention, development, and the buildout of bodies of technology.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

It is a…knowings: Michael Polanyi pointed out long ago that much of human knowledge is tacit, indeed that such knowledge is indispensable.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Unfortunately, the processes of validating knowledges fail to take into account this multiplicity of knowings that can together comprehensive speak to the diversity of the histories of ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape human growth and development.

The Web and the Spread of Indigenous Knowledge 2009

Unfortunately, the processes of validating knowledges fail to take into account this multiplicity of knowings that can together comprehensive speak to the diversity of the histories of ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape human growth and development.

The Web and the Spread of Indigenous Knowledge 2009

In the first three decades of the twentieth century the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was the locus of inventions in atomic physics, and it built these upon a treasury of knowings to do with atomic phenomena.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

They can manufacture and improve the technology, but they will not be initiating it on a large scale because the detailed knowings needed to push the edge are not resident there.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009