Telmo, pls. tellme: what should we call 'information'? if Brent takes a picture, is it - O N E - info only, or as many as re composed to be included in his picture? That would be zillions, depending how you count them. We are nowhere in identifying the terms we use in communication. JM
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 1:24 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Telmo Menezes > *Sent:* Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:22 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Food for thought > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:36 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/17/2015 11:56 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > > > Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now > creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from > the dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that > by 2020, the size of the world’s digital universe will be close to 44 > trillion gigabytes > > > If I take a picture with my smartphone is that counted as "creating > information"? > > > > I suspect it is, but we must remember that not everything that can be > counted counts. > > > > What about the masterpiece that nobody ever sees, hears or reads? I am > sure many great works of thought have been utterly lost and many more have > never been experienced outside of the brains of their creators. Perhaps > some fundamental theoretical work is even now languishing in utter > obscurity. Is this “creating information” or does “creating information” > depend on it becoming consumed (and entangled with other streams of > information)? > > > > Chris > > > > Telmo. > > > > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
