Posted by Akhil Shahani on August 13, 2001 at 05:17:13:

In Reply to: Knowledge borg posted by Denham on August 12, 2001 at 10:59:23:

Hi Denham,

"Resistance is futile, You Will Be Assimilated" - Standard Borg Greeting, (Star Trek Series)

although it may be utopian to wish for total immersion in the world of information around us, we do face a bottleneck in the amount of information humans can absorb in their lifetime (est. 36,000 books, if we read 24 hours a day)

so the problem is that if we get plugged into more & more sources of information, the amount of time we can spend on each reduces so the quality of knowledge gathered on each is also affected.

I feel we may have to focus on finding ways to filter out what we really find useful to ourselves in our personal lives (differs from person to person) instead of trying to absorb as much info as we can.

To quote another 'Trekkie' analogy, The Borg who were plugged into their central information network had no independant thoughts & totally shut down when the connection was severed.

Take care,

Akhil

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