In 2009, more data will be generated by individuals than in the entire history of mankind through 2008.
This is describing shareable data -- bits and bytes, books and newspapers and magazines, radio and tv signals. And I suspect they're counting up copies of data. There is value that comes from the multiplicity of data copies, but there is also a lot of noise. In our world now, this data is superabundant, we're swimming in it. We're still required to sort through it and think about meaningful things and act on it.
Notice that individuals generate data.
It's different with wisdom. Wisdom has different sources. Scan this list of all the passages in the New Testament that describe wisdom.
Here is my take-home summary: The wisdom of God is given, and it's superior in every way to the so-called wisdom of crowds or individuals. Therefore, we must ask for it. We don't generate it as individuals. Wisdom is not data.
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