Thursday, October 15, 2009

So much information

Sometimes I wish I had been born earlier. There was less to know then. Now there is just too much to learn. Just when I think I have a grasp on something, new information comes out. How does anybody keep up?

I like the idea that technology has the ability to help make sense of the information explosion. Because I can't. It's too much. Engaging the value chain seems logical. Moving from reaction to prediction--sounds good but I still have a difficult time putting much credence into technology's ability to make predictions. When framed as helping people to anticpate things though, then it makes more sense. So maybe my problem is just with the word prediction.

A petabyte sounds big. And sort of dirty.

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