Comments on: What More Information Do I Need, Really? http://drpaulwhite.com/blog/2007/03/26/what-more-information-do-i-need-really/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:11:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Paul http://drpaulwhite.com/blog/2007/03/26/what-more-information-do-i-need-really/#comment-1977 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:09:47 +0000 http://drpaulwhite.com/blog/2007/03/26/what-more-information-do-i-need-really/#comment-1977 This is a great example of the hyper-accessibility we have to information. I don't know that I would call it lazy to gather information in this way. In fact, I think you could argue it is a good way to leverage your time and energy -- let someone else do the legwork and then you look at the summaries. However, I think the more important question is: why do you need this information? What are you going to do with it? Does it actually improve the value of your life? I, personally, have taken steps to limit my information intake. I have found that I have only so much time, energy, and mental bandwidth and need to reserve those resources for more important tasks in my daily life. This is a great example of the hyper-accessibility we have to information. I don’t know that I would call it lazy to gather information in this way. In fact, I think you could argue it is a good way to leverage your time and energy — let someone else do the legwork and then you look at the summaries. However, I think the more important question is: why do you need this information? What are you going to do with it? Does it actually improve the value of your life?

I, personally, have taken steps to limit my information intake. I have found that I have only so much time, energy, and mental bandwidth and need to reserve those resources for more important tasks in my daily life.

]]> by: Striker D http://drpaulwhite.com/blog/2007/03/26/what-more-information-do-i-need-really/#comment-1840 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:33:42 +0000 http://drpaulwhite.com/blog/2007/03/26/what-more-information-do-i-need-really/#comment-1840 I think information can alo become addicting for those of us in the high school generation. It's so easy to set up RSS feeds from our favorite websites (MSN, CNN, MSNBC, eOnline) and let the people who own those websites do constructive work during the day while we come home from school and sit there and feed off of all the information we've gathered, with no particular goal in mind for using this other than just to know. Web 3.0 is coming, and with it vast amounts of ways to collect an exorbitant amount of information during our sleeping hours, so we can open the flood gates and drown ourselves in it during our waking hours. I think information can alo become addicting for those of us in the high school generation. It’s so easy to set up RSS feeds from our favorite websites (MSN, CNN, MSNBC, eOnline) and let the people who own those websites do constructive work during the day while we come home from school and sit there and feed off of all the information we’ve gathered, with no particular goal in mind for using this other than just to know.

Web 3.0 is coming, and with it vast amounts of ways to collect an exorbitant amount of information during our sleeping hours, so we can open the flood gates and drown ourselves in it during our waking hours.

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