Will information become worthless?

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  1. A Canadian

    A Canadian Why talk? When you can listen? Registered Senior Member

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    Information is pointless.

    The best and most current example of this I can give is "Ferinhight 9/11"

    I mean come on... was this guy really re-elected?

    The world needs a new government, the people should control everything, not a higher "government"....

    Democracy is dead, and so is information.
     
    A Canadian, Jan 22, 2005
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  3. dinokg

    dinokg Registered Senior Member

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    In any case whether or not someone did get one of these brain modems it wouldn't make them instantly super geniuses.

    Everyone has their own speed as fair as absorbing, understanding, and puting to use information that is gained.

    Also experience in actually dueing things will still be important.
     
    dinokg, Jan 22, 2005
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  5. Starthane Xyzth

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    Of course not. It would simply remove all difficulties in acquiring information, and put an end to needless ignorance. However knowledgeable a person becomes, their native IQ remains the same.
     
    Starthane Xyzth, Jan 23, 2005
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  7. Fraggle Rocker

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    The Bronze Age was really the beginning of the Age of Metallurgy. We are still in it. Smelting and alloying metal is just as important as it ever was. Post-Neolithic civilization still depends on it.

    The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age is noteworthy so many millennia later only because of its political ramifications, not the metallurgical ones. The metals required to alloy bronze are almost never found near each other. Bronze technology mandated the cooperation of disparate peoples and enforced a fragile peace. One kingdom had the copper ore, one had the nickel, another had the fuel for smelting, and another had the smiths. Once humans figured out how to reduce iron ore to iron, they found it everywhere. Suddenly every barbarian tribe became a kingdom, and they were all equally well armed.

    Industry is similarly vital to modern civilization even though it's now a mature technology that doesn't command a lot of attention.

    Information will enjoy the same fate.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Jan 23, 2005
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  8. Starthane Xyzth

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    So it will become passe, unacknowledged, taken for granted? That's already happened with a lot of people, I would say. They can hardly imagine life without mobile phones or broadband Internet, any more than most children of the industrial age could imagine life without cars.
     
    Starthane Xyzth, Jan 24, 2005
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  9. Lava

    Lava Let discovery flow Registered Senior Member

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    Yet we remain profoundly uninformed. We live our lives, in almost every area, far short of having all the relevant information. Even those of us who are experts only know a fair chunk of one field, in most areas most of us know very little.

    When the human mind can conncet to the net, AND search engines are massively better than today, any time you wonder something, the answer's there. 4 year olds can get an education just by walking down the street and wondering things, or encountering situations they need to learn about.

    We call this the information age, but this is only the infancy of information yet.


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    Lava, Feb 1, 2005
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  10. Starthane Xyzth

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    What you describe there would be more like an "age of omniscience." I can hardly wait.
     
    Starthane Xyzth, Feb 1, 2005
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