network

As knowledge becomes networked, the smartest person in the room isn’t the person standing in front lecturing, and isn’t the collective wisdom of those in the room.

The smartest person in the room is the room itself: the network that joins the people and ideas in the room, and connects to those outside of it.

Knowledge is becoming inextricable from – literally unthinkable without – the network that enables it.”

From:
“Too Big to Know” by David Weinberger