The Geography of Knowledge

Does knowledge have a geography? Sure, back in the day when people actually used libraries for its books rather than its study space, but after reading Weinberger's third chapter about the digital disorder, I would have to say technology has eradicated that geography. What interests me though is how this lack of geography is going to affect generations to come. Even though we have all grown up with technology, it wasn't as important to our society as it is today. My generation still utilized the geography of knowledge, understanding that To Kill A Mockingbird belongs in a completely different section than the biography of George W. Bush, and that every book has its own unique place. But as websites such as Amazon, which is built upon the idea that knowledge can be organized in as many ways as possible, expands, future generations may loose their sense of what makes different pieces of writing, well different. At a bookstore, when we are in the fiction section, we can trust with a high degree of probability that we are only going to be browsing through fiction stories. However, out on the world wide web, clicking the suggestions for a fiction story might contain both fiction, not fiction, and reference entries. Therefore, the third order of order's plethora of routes of information may not only change the way future generations go about seeking information but also the way they organize their own knowledge-geography maps.