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We don’t live in an information society anymore. Simply because information is virtually free and infinitely accessible.
What I think matters today is 3 things:
Simply put: How do you solve complex problems that you haven’t encountered before?
→ The development of information
Information used to be, and sometimes we see glimpses of this still, safeguarded by people in power. If you had information, you just as well had power. That could be from studying and memorising a volume of information, or be wealthy enough to have books (depending on when we’re talking about of course).
With the rise of IT and the internet, information was let “free”. The distribution of information is a lot easier today than it was just 20 years ago, much thanks to Google and similar companies.
That being said, there’s still a commercial value in information. That creates an incentive to index and share information, in order to earn money. Hence, people game the system, creating and indexing a shit load of information just to rank and hence earn money. There’s more information accessible today, but finding the right information is like finding a needle in a haystack.
→ Information processing
In order to make sense of information and turn it into knowledge, we need context. That something is hot only means something to us once we have a concept of what hot means. It could be from experiences or remembrance of other people’s experiences of similar things.
Once information is processed, it has value to us. It’s a lot easier to memorise and we have some other things to mentally attach it to.
→ Knowledge and skills
Knowledge is useful in itself, to a certain point. But unless it’s put to practice or verbalised, it still has unrealised potential. Kind of like Imagination and Creativity:
Creativity is imagination put into practice.
Using your knowledge will, with time, create skills. It’s when you do something based on your knowledge. Knowledge that’s derived from information.