Shift happens

[Nick Thompson]

Bill,

I notice that you used one of the code words,  information pickup.  Are you
a gibsonian?

Nick


> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Eldridge <dcbill at volny.cz>
> To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>

> Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
>
>
> Dogs hear much better than you.
> Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't?
> As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves -
> it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the
> waves passing by?
>
> Much of the "new" information is information that's always existed.
> The true origin of the universe, the nature of quarks and black holes
> and chromosomes, aeronautics and fluid dynamics. More species existed
> in El Salvador 100 years ago than today, and still El Salvador has an
> amazing
> number of species, and still most of us couldn't name 1/100th of them.
> That some of us start to understand these things and use them, should that
> make the rest of us go crazy?
>
> We ignore information or use it or are distracted by it, maybe other
> possibilities.
> Does it really change our lives to know the earth we stand on is spinning

at

> 1000 miles per hour? In The Little Prince, the accountant sat there
> counting all
> the stars to know how many there are. Most of us aren't that obsessive.
> Let "information overload" come. It's only an overload if you try to
> pick it all up.
>
> Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > Hmmmm!
> >
> > Something bothers me about the notion of an information explosion.  
> >
> > Let's say that information is a statement about the number of different
> > things in the world that could possibly be pointed out.  Then

information
> > is a constant, or infinite, or both, eh?  
> >
> > Lets say that information is astatement about what can becommunicated
from
> > one human being to another.  Then it depends, does it not, on the
ability
> > of humans to process.  then information can increase only if our
ability to

> > process increases and there can never be an over load of information.  
> >
> > Am I nuts, but does this notion of information overload only arise from
> > using the word "information" simultaneously in these to somewhat
> > contradictory senses????
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
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[Bill Eldridge]

No, I didn't even see "The Passion", though "Apocalypto" sounded cool.
Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg & a
case of beer -
no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it.

Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I notice that you used one of the code words,  information pickup.  Are you
> a gibsonian?
>
> Nick
>
>
>  
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Bill Eldridge <dcbill at volny.cz>
>> To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
>>    
> Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>  
>> Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
>>
>>
>> Dogs hear much better than you.
>> Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't?
>> As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves -
>> it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the
>> waves passing by?
>>    

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