Cary Lecture Series Presents Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

For thousands of years, we've organized our ideas the same way we've organized our laundry, separating them into neat piles. In the digital age, this is an unnecessary limitation. In the digital age, new principles of organization are enabling us to find information in a way that we need and in ways that work for us as individuals.

David Weinberger has an eclectic background which includes a PhD in Philosophy and a seven-year stint as a gag writer for Woody Allen. For the past three decades, Dr. Weinberger has been a technology and marketing leader as well as an advisor to Fortune 500 companies. He is the co-author of the internationally-acclaimed, "The Cluetrain Manifesto," #6 BusinessWeek's bestseller list. His next two books, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web" and "Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" have also garnered international acclaim.

Dr. Weinberger is a Senior Researcher at Harvard Law's prestigious Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, and is a Franklin Fellow at the United States State Department (2010).

He has been published in a wide variety of journals, including Wired and Harvard Business Review many times, as well as in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, Salon, USA Today, the Boston Globe, The Guardian; and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio.

Tickets for the Cary Lecture Series were mailed to all households in Lexington. Additional tickets are available at Cary Memorial Library and the Town Offices building.