KM Over Time

The practice of Knowledge Management is as old as language itself. How esle to explain the creation of a set alphabet and vocabulary if not to share information, creating knowledge growth? The creation of written language was of course a major step in the evolution of knowledge management. 

Does it follow from here that the evolution of the written word is in fact the evolution of knowledge management? Perhaps not directly, but the two certainly share major milestones. 

Enter the following infrographic showing "The Evolution of Knowledge Management", from the Socialcast blog. Note that about the first 5000 years follow the evolution of writing, to then switch over to the accelerated evolution of computer technology. This, the post explains, happened 

As we have shifted from an industrial-based society to an information-based one, many jobs and tasks have been automated by machinery. The result is a smaller workforce and the advent of the knowledge worker.

It's a short paragraph introducing the graphic, and well worth the read; I suggest you take a look and then click on the image below to see the details.