The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer

This is pretty interesting.

> Tacit knowledge is knowledge that can’t properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction, like the ability to create great art or assess a startup. This tacit knowledge is a form of intellectual dark matter, pervading society in a million ways, some of them trivial, some of them vital.

> YouTube reports that searches in the “how-to” category has grown 70% year-on-year.

Buries a lede:

> What if the scientific literature shifted its balance much more towards visual documentation?

> JoVE, a peer-reviewed video journal, is the only effort of this kind I’m aware of. They record and make available online tacit knowledge from universities and laboratories across the world. They have been collecting such material since December 2006, making it almost as old as YouTube.

https://www.jove.com/journal