Category Archives: information

Catching a waterfall in a paper cup

Among those of us, typically cited as 1/5 (but probably now 1/4) of world’s population, who have access, and are typically addicted, to the Internet, one of our biggest problems is information overload and, because of it, time management. Even without the Internet, time management is a real problem for people, but the Internet severely compounds [...]

Are we certain about doubt?

Today, we live in a world in which the concepts of incompleteness and uncertainty are seen as integral and inherent to information transfer. Does this mean that certainties will always conflict between any two or more agents or, even, within a single awareness? Are we sure that doubt is the only reasonable position for each [...]

Should we free information?

What if no one felt bad for copying someone else’s thought or idea? What if everyone felt free to use any information they found for any reason? Imagine a world in which you could copy one paragraph from one article, add another paragraph from a different article, throw in a few of your own thoughts, [...]