Hakiri

In my opinion, some of the facts presented in this video are questionable. There isn’t an easy way to verify them. Nevertheless, the footage is quite interesting and informative.

3.0 for 2008 – Newly Revised Edition Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age. It was even adapted by Sony BMG at an executive meeting they held in Rome this year. Credits are also given to Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman.

The reason why I am posting this is to stress that information has become an important part of our lives. Today we are information hungry. Tomorrow… who knows? I suspect that we will get fed up with the world and escape for the simpler life. You might want to check my previous article on the same subject.

Some people say that what happens on the Web STAYS on the Web. Although I agree that this is true for some of the content it is largely untrue for the majority of it.

The reason for this is relatively simple. Not everything is rated equally and not everything is disseminated in a way that it is preserved within the inner fabrics of the web ecosystem. For something to stay on the web you need not only to publish it but also to cause the so called viral effect where hundreds if not millions of individuals help the information to disseminate permanently. The viral effect is a key property for prolonging or immortalizing the life of information. It also protects the integrity of the information so that its true meaning cannot be lost. If you think about it, the viral effect is to some extend like a networked RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) system.

Without the viral publishing successful dissemination of the information is not possible and without recurrent viral campaigns its immortalization is not guaranteed.

For the majority of the content it is fair to say that if it born on the web, it will die on the web as well.

This is a quick post regarding information overload. I believe that there are many people out there suffering from excess dose of information, or at least this is what they thing is the problem of their sleep deprivation, continues stress and general unhappiness.

The truth is that there is no such thing as Information Overload. In fact, we love information and we can consume as much of it as we want. We cannot get overloaded unless we consume the same type of information, i.e. when there is no information diversity.

For example, if you read 50 newspapers everyday, it is very likely that you will get overloaded, simply because the same type information is dumped into your brain. However, if we visit the local park, we get relaxed although the amount of information we receive is significantly more. The difference is that the information received from 50 newspapers is of the same kind while the information that we receive from a nature is very diversified.

Therefore, your problem is not the overload of information but the lack of information diversity.

The first time when I heard Mass Destruction from Faithless, I thought that it was pretty cool given that I was deeply involved into their music at the time. It was much later when I realized, or found, a meaning of my own inside the lyrics, which inspired me to write this little article titled Information as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, which has similar idea when compared to the one from song. Or at least I think that this is the case.

The truth is that everyone has their own interpretation about the things that matter. Anyway, the song is great. It makes you question some of the things that we otherwise take for granted!