Monday, February 9, 2009

Information Change?

We have learned that the way that we gather information is changing, but let's step out of the box for a sec and think about the actual information that is being sent across via all different mediums. Does the information change because it is more abundant? Does it change because we now seek for more because we can?

The idea of the information changing is not that the facts are changing, it is based on the way that we synthesize the data and how it materializes. The way we receive information and the way that we collect data is moving fast and faster as more technology becomes available, so what does that mean for information to us?

We need the information framed in a way that we are able to look at it and process that information quickly so that we can move on to the next thing. This allows for us to streamline and be more cost effective, but there may be some fallacy in this. Because we are moving so fast we trust and believe that the information that we are gathering is truth and we leave it at that. I am not saying that we should question everything in our lives, because that will be counter-productive in how far we have come, but we must understand that the idea of something framed may create some danger.

We briefly discussed this in class as the dependency of technology is to compliment not supplement our human behavior. This idea of change is great, but there must be a core foundation as to the direction we take this change.

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