Edgar Morin,
director of research at CNRS

   

« Today, the structure of contemporary knowledge raises like the tower of Babel which dominates us much more than we dominate the structure*»

 

 

Fighting the confusion of knowledge and the access tools to such knowledge is one of the fundamental goals of project ru3.

 

The pilig up of knowldge, which becomes more and more specialised, favours the appearance of languages and tools that remain inaccessible to the non-experts. It is necessary to return to the user the tools of expression and the exchange of knowledge.

If the XML language offer unpublished views in terms of knowledge's access, the computer scientists have appropriated this metalanguage, and persist to rebuild new Babel's Towers. (related link : languages)

 

*Source : Edgar Morin, La Méthode, tome III, la connaissance de la connaissance, éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1986. p. 14