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bevier
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Information Underload

so true — we always confuse information with data.

=> Data Overload = Information Underload

Data is what you can store and retrieve, copy and sell, information is time-dependent, not storable and therefore not exchangeable, it has to be reconstructed from data, that’s work, needs time.

But each and every information processing system, our brain, even Googles and Facebooks gigantic server farms are finite, can only handle a finite amount of data to be selected, cleaned up, evaluated, compared, classified.

So if you boost the amount of data to be streamed through your IP, the groundwork will occupy more and more ressources, so that the main job — reconstruction of information from data relationships — cannot be done.

The Digital Natives are so proud to be more intelligent and more clever than their parents because they are able to consume more and more bits of data, but they only optimize their brains for data streaming losing control over the information hidden behind. No wonder, that fake news now are as appreciated as Natural Science.