Hơn nữa, các giao tiếp với các nguồn tài nguyên kỹ thuật số sẽ bao gồm các kiến thức ngầm và rõ ràng, chuyển tải hình ảnh, lời nói, văn bản, đồ họa, và các phương tiện truyền thông cùng một lúc. Một sự kết hợp phong phú hơn của sơ đồ, đồ họa, mô phỏng, và tổng hợp của | Paths to the e-Knowledge Future Engaging communities of practice in feedback loops adds value. Amazon has been doing this successfully with its system of book reviews. MERLOT does this with its approach to collecting metadata on course materials in the academic community giving emphasis and easy expression to the age-old academic tradition of peer review. Communities of practice create capture and share tacit knowledge. The World Bank is sometimes now known as the Knowledge Bank in recognition of a successful restructure during the 1990s to become a knowledge-based institution involving stakeholders staff and clients from all over the world in knowledge sharing aimed at new efficiencies. Harvesting the judgment of experli. In his book World Without Secrets Richard Hunter uses the term Mentat originally coined by Frank Herbert in Dune to describe human experts who serve as synthesizers of what is important in particular are as of expertise. Over the next five to ten years Hunter reckons that the limitations of search engines will create a valuable niche for such synthesizing sages. Typically communities of practice are where Mentats can be found. In a World Without Secrets . . . Mentats will increasingly be measured not by their ability to provide more information but by their ability to make accurate predictions give concise data and reduce the amount of information their clients must handle. Of course this increases the hidden power of the Mentat. . . who do what computers can t and won t do for the next ten years make decisions and predictions based on qualitative figures like judgment benefits values and emotions. Mentats fill a number of increasingly important rolls in the World Without Secrets Mentats tell us what matters and how. They provide the frameworks we use to interpret the world or a piece of it. A framework is based on values so it s one of the things that defines a community. In other words a Mentat leads a community. Like other leaders Mentats make
