Friday, December 3, 2010

Information overdose

We are in an age where there is information right on our finger tips. We cannot deny that. All the good and bad information, right and wrong information, important and unimportant information, all are over lapped one over the other.

We must make it clear to ourselves that we have limited time and too much information. What can we do to deal with it. Few things, we can either transfer the information to those who have time and buy their time. This is what we have been doing for the past many years. But since there is overdose we cannot deal the problem with more people. We have to find a smarter way to deal with it. We all know that there is so much information to confuse us. Any layman knows. We are old enough to understand this. Another way is to simply discard the information and come to it only when we require one. We all live in a world where we have to learn to scan things rather than to read things completely.

Most of us are not even well versed in reading, why, because reading takes too much effort and also there are some really smart, bad reading, copy paste articles out there.

We have replicas of the same readings again and again. Now we have rather forgot who was the father of the material, the original inventor. That is why some bad textbooks have so many bibliographies, because that is what we have. It shall take too much of our time to really experience these things. Now we have considered them to be true to what they are saying. That is a strange assumption. People are doing good work but there is lot that still needs to be done.

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