The Death of Expertise describes how established knowledge is challenged and why this is critical in our modern society.
With nearly unlimited access to information - the information age - we've become narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarians.
Everything from webMD to Wikipedia, normal people are now experts.
Any idea now demands to be taken seriously. Unsubstantiated claims have the same visibility is tested theories and evidence-based principles, processes, and practices
In our software development domain, anyone with a blog and a Twitter account can make statements. Present company included.
The trouble is fact checking these claims takes effort.
With the right tag lines, those making bogus claims can collect followers with ease.
This book is a rear guard action on behave of those who actually know what they are talking about.
