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September 5th, 2007Unidentified Pervasiveness of Information
I’d like to point out that “Information, in modern American society, is everywhere.” and that almost any question can be quickly and easily answered by a quick visit to almost any of our portable devices, though definitely in the networking of our personal computers. Everyone already knows this, though, just as they know the Star-spangled banner. That’s why this wasn’t entitled “Pervasiveness of Information.” The point is that almost no one actually uses the technology at their fingertips. If people want questions answered they’ll quickly pull up a search engine and pound out the answer, then rigorously selecting answers until they come up with the bit of information that sheds some ignorance on the subject. So what?
We can all do that at this point, whether or not your Google-Fu allows you to pull the answer out in the first page or tenth, we all have the ability to pull out the answers. Second resort would be some more lengthy reading on the the topic in an encyclopedia, then probably towards messaging a friend to see if they can procure the answer. But that’s still rather minimal. If you want knowledge on a subject, there are much better methods than pulling message board threads and half-assed blogs for their answers.
I came up to this realization because of how media saturated I become when I start looking into a topic. My first stop is a search engine, pulling up people’s opinions and the official website. Then, to Wikipedia for some more in-depth reading on the material, and then followed by YouTube and Google Video (hit them both, they have an interesting difference in material) to watch speeches made by people involved, speeches towards the people involved. Then, I scour the internet for more broad ideas on the topic and start branching out to other subjects, as my interest takes fancy.
For instance, just the other day I was thinking about Idiocracy and thinking about electrolytes. I honestly don’t know what they are. But I didnt’ leave it at that, like I was used to in the past. I hit up the internet, checked out general research with Wikipedia, then actual research papers on it, and grasped a far better understanding on the matter. This could have lead me to reading about impure water (and it’s necessity!), nutritionalism, et cetera!
I guess an important message I can give you for this bit is how much more information there is out on the internet and world wide web than anybody realizes. Sure, you can repeat the mantra of information being everywhere, but I don’t think you honestly understand how many resources you have available to you. Ditch your standard methods of research and come up with some more interesting ones.
Information really is out there, people, get your learning on. There’s so much out there. It doesn’t even matter on the topic; if you’re looking for technical things, look up video tutorials, RFCs, Wikipedia entries, et cetera. Almost everything you could be interested in are on the internet and the World Wide Web.
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September 6th, 2007 at 17:23
Yeh I find I do this too, just yesterday I realized I hadn’t a clue about Charles Manson, so I ended up looking it up on Wikipedia, then going to Youtube.
I do find when I’m lost on a subject I will follow a pattern similar to the one you outlined above.