The video shown in class some two weeks ago presented interesting trivia on topics covering the Chinese population, broadband access, Indians and their high IQ, storage capacity of computers, and the fact that information is readily available to almost everyone.
In view of the technological advancements nowadays, I think that the problem is not the availability of information; it is the discrimination of information. If there is a banquet filled with a plethora of facts and figures, of data and information—accurate and inaccurate, truthful and false, relevant and futile—how does one choose? What standards are applicable? Should the government take an active role in weeding out the inaccurate, the false, the futile? Who decides which ones are inaccurate, false and futile in the first place?
Anyway, the image above is a visual representation of the 100 most used words in all the blog entries posted last week according to Wordle. I have no idea if this is useful information. What I know is that it is visually appealing—or at least I think so.
_____
3rd Entry
Ralph Vincent Catedral
In view of the technological advancements nowadays, I think that the problem is not the availability of information; it is the discrimination of information. If there is a banquet filled with a plethora of facts and figures, of data and information—accurate and inaccurate, truthful and false, relevant and futile—how does one choose? What standards are applicable? Should the government take an active role in weeding out the inaccurate, the false, the futile? Who decides which ones are inaccurate, false and futile in the first place?
Anyway, the image above is a visual representation of the 100 most used words in all the blog entries posted last week according to Wordle. I have no idea if this is useful information. What I know is that it is visually appealing—or at least I think so.
_____
3rd Entry
Ralph Vincent Catedral
No comments:
Post a Comment