There is a distinction between information and knowledge, which is worth keeping in mind. As had been reported, Wiki (English language version) has done dark. This is the landing page image.
January 18, 2012
by Atanu Dey
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Category Archives: Information Overload
July 4, 2011
by Atanu Dey
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The Age of Superfluous Information — Revisited
The Economist’s article, “Too much information: How to cope with data overload,” deals with information overload. (Hat tip Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy for the link.) For a few years I have been concerned about it since I have a very low … Continue reading
May 25, 2009
by Atanu Dey
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Keeping Afloat in a WWW-world
I received an SMS just moments ago: “A thirteen-year old’s day in Surat: school 7 to 2. Daily tuitions 4:30 to 7:30. Saw ICSE standard 8th textbooks. Detailed and depressing. What a state!” No surprise to me as I have … Continue reading
January 25, 2009
by Atanu Dey
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Not the News
I get to watch TV news only occasionally, mostly at airports, hotels and while visiting friends. Today at my friend’s place in Delhi, I woke up to TV news. It was wall-to-wall coverage of Dr Manmohan Singh’s heart surgery and … Continue reading
March 2, 2008
by Atanu Dey
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Infinite Information, Infinite Ignorance
Information, Not Plastics The world has come a long way since the 1960s when the future was defined by one word – “plastics” – as Mr McGuire advised the young graduate Ben. Now the future is defined by another word … Continue reading
October 18, 2007
by Atanu Dey
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The Age of Profound Ignorance
Perhaps you have read it before on this blog. Now “The Age of Profound Ignorance” is available to a wider readership on LiveMint.com. (If the previous link does not work, please use this one.)
July 20, 2007
by Atanu Dey
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Hi-tech Puzzle
I am a big fan of using technology in education. Information and communications technology (ICT) is tailor-made for application in education. What I don’t understand is why some people are going on about the use of “wireless, low-orbiting satellite, fiber-optic” … Continue reading
May 14, 2007
by Atanu Dey
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Reduce your attention deficit
Everything has a cost and this arises from the basic fact that we are mortals. We are given a finite amount of time. Time is the limiting constraint, not money or stuff. The more stuff out there that clamors for … Continue reading
February 9, 2007
by Atanu Dey
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Wide Area Content and Narrow Area Content
The total volume of information available in the world is unbelievably large and is increasing exponentially. Much of this information is becoming available on the world wide web. I refer to this subset as the WAC, or “Wide Area Content.” … Continue reading
January 21, 2006
by Atanu Dey
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A Sunny Pleasure Dome with Caves of Ice
At the risk of being branded a Luddite, I maintain that the world wide web is the single most distracting thing ever invented by humans. The internet is immensely useful for practical matters of course but aside from its utilitarian … Continue reading
October 15, 2005
by Atanu Dey
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The Age of Superfluous Information — Part 2
Sorting and searching through information are uniquely human activities because only humans have an external store of information which needs to be accessed and acted upon. The notion of acting on information stored externally is not associated with non-human animals. … Continue reading
October 4, 2005
by Atanu Dey
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The Age of Superfluous Information
“There is no more dangerous mistake than the mistake of supposing that we cannot have too much of a good thing.” Thus spake George Bernard Shaw. Excess is as damaging as shortage in most things that are considered good. More … Continue reading
July 18, 2005
by Atanu Dey
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The World is (Information) Fat: Followup
One of the rewards of writing a blog is the occasional detailed comment that readers (yes, this blog has more than one casual reader) send in. One such comment was elicited by my earlier post “The World is (Information) Fat.” … Continue reading
June 7, 2005
by Atanu Dey
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The World is (Information) Fat
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” – Samuel Johnson quoted in Boswell’s “Life of Johnson.” If you come to think about it for a moment, what … Continue reading