Internet

            
            
             This is a nice invention. And considering the www alone, the main thing is that it is flashy, colorful, icons are blinking and it can
             talk to you. Besides that, it is fast and easy, of course. It claims to be a powerful tool for exchanging and gathering information
             which will change the world in the near future. And probably it will. The enthusiastic prophets of this tool stress that the amount
             of information available on the web is already immense and quickly growing, and access is getting cheaper, faster and more
             widely available (financially and mentally) to all. And I'm asking: So what?
            
             First of all, too much information means no information. If I read one newspaper I can learn something. With twenty
             newspapers I can hardly read the titles and if I'm not looking for anything in particular I'm lost. Similarly, browsing the web
             without a very specific subject in mind (as the majority of our fellow humans do) turns this tool into a horrific waste of time. And
             the vast information stored here is useless, as if it wasn't there. Secondly, to get anything interesting or informative from the
             web, no matter what the subject, one must know its exact location, else one is compelled to dive into a muddy flood of *censored*.
             This leads me to the point of clarifying the term "information":
             This word usually has two meanings, a fact that contributes to misunderstandings. It can mean a piece of wanted, useful and
             understandable data or it can also mean any piece of data. When a stupid chick posts some info that her doggie just pissed on
             the carpet and she includes on the web page a picture of her with the dog, I wouldn't even call it "data". I call it a scandal. And
             I waste my time downloading this crap because it happened that this rotten dog is named Io, the same name as one of Jupiter's
             moons, pictures of which I wanted to look at. Now you know what I'm talking about.
             Therefore I say that www enthusiasts talk of "flow of...

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