Bill Ives promises to tell us the History of Knowledge Management in Six Parts:

This serialized work attempts to puts the current state of knowledge management in context, providing a brief historical overview of knowledge management and communication media, and offering a framework for examining issues based on cognitive psychology. Key questions and challenges are offered at the end of most sections. It begins tomorrow with %u201CHistory of KM Part 2: The Early Days.%u201D In this case we are talking about 4000 BC, not the mid 1980s.

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