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A good overview of the discussion about the existing value of the term “knowledge worker” and feedback.

As much of the industrialized and post-industrialized
world moves to the integration of information and knowledge use for improved efficiency and productivity, the term of a pure knowledge worker loses some value. But, more and more people have the role of knowledge worker as part of their job or existence. This role and how to perform this role has broader and greater importance. But, the propotion of the knowledge worker role in a job or in one’s life matters greatly as to how their interact and make use of the inforamtion and turn it into knowledge. The tools used are going to be vastly different. The ability to follow vast flows of information, identify valuable pieces of information, hold on to those pieces to refind them as needed, and then make use of that information is going to be different across and between the other various roles people have in their worklives as well as whole life.