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Subtitled The Power of the New Digital Disorder, Weinberger examines the ways that the internet is changing the way humans deal with organising knowledge. Easy reading, but Weinberger’s observations never go beyond the obvious. His examination of the history of organisation was interesting. I particularly enjoyed the sections on Melvil Dewey (of the Dewey decimal system) and Linnaeus and the taxonomical system he developed that forms the basis of modern biological classification. But the rest seemed kind of weak.