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Critical Mass2
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posted 19 April 2006 12:59 PM      Profile for Critical Mass2        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"Engineers and information specialists from government, industry and academia agreed at a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) workshop that immediate action is needed to keep vast amounts of digital knowledge from disappearing into cyberspace or becoming in 200, or even 20 years, as incomprehensible as the markings on Babylonian cuneiform tablets...According to estimates offered at the conference, the world churns out new digital information equivalent to the entire collection of the U.S. Library of Congress every 15 minutes. Such a proliferation of information in digital format, occurring almost 100 times a day, adds up to approximately five exabytes (five quintillion bytes or five billion gigabytes) a year."

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From: AKA Critical Mass or Critical Mass3 - Undecided in Ottawa/Montreal | Registered: Nov 2005  |  IP: Logged
Brian White
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posted 19 April 2006 10:02 PM      Profile for Brian White   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yes. The problem with the internet is like bad money driving out good in economics.
Anybody can put anything on the net and say that it is true so real interesting stuff is lost in the garbage. So rather than a great tool for education, the internet has become a great tool for propaganda. But with a twist, cos you can have whatever propaganda you like.
You can have meaty farty atkins diet propaganda, you can have no cook diet propaganda or any one of a hundred others. And thats just diets, you can go religion or economic theory. (The economic bible by the fraser institute for greedy little business men for instance).
So perhaps the internet is dividing people into little groups of self rightous ignorant idiots?
Just a thought.

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Critical Mass2
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posted 21 April 2006 02:05 PM      Profile for Critical Mass2        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
True perhaps but in many legitimate areas, such as law, science, academia, government, etc., massive quantities of information needed to run systems or provide services people depend on can disappear in the snap of the fingers.
From: AKA Critical Mass or Critical Mass3 - Undecided in Ottawa/Montreal | Registered: Nov 2005  |  IP: Logged

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