Expanding Our Knowledge Sphere

Visualize a bubble. This bubble represents all of humanities knowledge. The bubble is not necessarily uniform in it’s radius. The boundaries are not exactly clear cut as you would like them to be. Some parts of the bubble even have holes. They eventually get filled. The bubble keeps on growing. Expanding. Becoming ever larger. Sometimes people find themselves outside the bubble. And sometimes they eventually find a way back. They are the vanguards. Advancing out into the unknown territory. The front lines of our knowledge sphere. Some people may poke at the unknown abyss. Some may blow holes in them. Some may push at the unknown. Push. Pushing ever so hard, never going anywhere. A little while later someone might ride in with the cavalry with tanks and guns. Aiding each other in the push to expand our horizon of knowledge.

I want to be someone who provides the people hacking away at the unknown abyss with powerful tools. Tools so efficient, cheap, and mind mindbogglingly powerful. I want to be someone who arms fellow comrades with the firepower, the means, and the will to push back the unknown abyss. I want to help expand our knowledge sphere. Need some explosives? Don’t worry. I’m coming with a nuke to help punch a hole in that wall of yours.

Aha! I've just come up with a visual that could perhaps represent the following; known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown. Wait a minute, lemme get a piece of paper and draw it. Here it is.

The blue outline just beyond our knowledge sphere,the part where our knowledge sphere comes into contact with the unknown abyss, there lies the known unknown. The things that we know we know. Beyond the known unknown, the abyss where our knowledge sphere doesn't even come into contact with, that would be the unknown unknown. The things we don’t know we don’t know. The pencil shaded part inside the knowledge sphere would be the known known. The things we know that we know. But there are holes in our bubble. These holes. Perhaps they could be the unknown knowns? The things we don't know that we know. Whatever that means.