[FRIAM] Shift happens

[Phil Henshaw]

Well, abstract measures of real tasks are a problem...  I always thought
the difficulty of 'keeping up' had to do with the multiplying complexity
of the learning task involved with being part of a growth system.  You
could say it's natural, been that way for hundreds of years, and be
quite accurate.   Learning in an endless classroom where the teacher
give out % increases in homework every day, however, tends to eventually
destabilize.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:48 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] Shift happens
> 
> 
> 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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