musings on interesting ideas

If data is “stuff” and information is “useful stuff” then this raises some interesting questions about what we are doing to ourselves in our society at the moment. We all seem to be suffering from data overload which cause stress, ill health, long working hours, etc. Maybe what we have been doing with all those computers and bits of technology is capturing and disseminating more and more data? But have we spent any real effort in trying to figure out now to turn the data into information? Surely if we could do this then we could decrease the data overload problem?

In your work and personal life how could you:

• Decrease the amount of data that you need to handle?
• Increase the amount of information that you handle?
• Develop techniques for converting data into information?

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