What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -- Herbert Simon, economist --
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>From: "William E Hammond"<hammo001 at mc.duke.edu>
>Sent: 5/29/05 6:29:41 AM
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>Subject: Re: Issue 1
>However, in my opinion, one can have too much data. Information, by
>definition, is more than data and conveys something understandable and
>useful that was not known before. Information deals with raising entrophy.
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>Long story short, designers of systems need to undersatnd the difference in
>data and information - ands, ideally, provide just what is needed when it
>is needed to address the circumstances of the situation.
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>Ed Hammond
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