I think knowledge is still power, Donald ... it's just that exercising it is taking on different 'forms and shapes' ... I think now it depends to a greater extent than before who has access to the knowledge, when and why .. or where it (the K) 'goes' when it has been created, deployed and used.

It's interesting to me that interconnectedness has led us, I think, into a paradox. The more that information flows and 'knowledge' is accessible and has some degree of transparency applied to its use, the more difficult it is for many of us to be able to discern what is really knowledge versus what is information (false or true) put into 'packages' that look like and may seem to be knowledge.

Free information has no value or power whatsoever, other than the fact that it is there and available. The social constructs applied to it are what gives it value and power ... in the past turning it into critical knowledge which was guarded and used by those in power. How they used it was often one of the key factors in retaining power. Today, increasingly the fact that 'knowledge' can be and is built and used 'horizontally' or in various directions and ways changes or has significant impact on the power equation. Which is, I think, why we hear more and more about leaders in an hierarchy needing to engage and listen. This is becoming the 'new' way of acquiring and using power .. attending to flows of information and knowledge and the people who are generating it and demonstrating understanding and action that includes that understanding.