The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic / quote 4 of 8

Knowledge and information

T.S. Eliot said it best, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"and I would add, Where is the information we have lost in data?

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