What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
I only ask for information.
Its impossible to move to live to operate at any level without leaving traces bits seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
My sources are unreliable but their information is fascinating.
In your thirst for knowledge be sure not to drown in all the information.’08-02-2010
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire it wafts across the electrified borders.
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.