# The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Samo Burja]]
- Full Title: The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://medium.com/@samo.burja/the-youtube-revolution-in-knowledge-transfer-cb701f82096a

## Highlights
- popular consensus has been that the video service is making people dumber. Indeed, modern video media may shorten attention spans and distract from longer-form means of communication, such as written articles or books. But critically overlooked is its unlocking a form of mass-scale tacit knowledge transmission which is historically unprecedented, facilitating the preservation and spread of knowledge that might otherwise have been lost.