Information The Revolution - Scratching the Surface
As news passes by us; everyday things become ordinary. The great information revolution has caused us to lose part of our humanity by plainly embracing the stories we find most horrifying. At the same time is has given us a new way to personalize streams of information.
Television, newspapers, radio and internet-all four of our great information forms, generally work with the same information. We are lucky to feel the brief respite from the deluge of bad news when positive or informative personal, social, or business stories appear. We are motivated to choose our information by what each of us reads, sees or hears in each medium.
The upside of this revolution is immeasurable and continues to astound. It is atonishing that we can setlle arguments with Wikipedia or catch up on weather and ski conditions in an instant. The ability for people to make purchases of anything they can buy in a global market nearly instantaneously (24 hours a day 7 day s a week) has changed the way we relate to the interactions which are required to bring us what we want, need or desire.
As the information revolution rapidly proceeds towards complete integra
tion with our daily lives we begin to lose some sense of what kind of work goes into each and every thing we use on a daily basis. Information must be gathered, sorted, and rewritten.News stories are carefullly scrutinized for bad information, poor grammar or incorrect statements. This workload is part of what allows so many people to be employed in the collection, filtration, and distribution of information.
The information age is slowly reaching a crescendo and the most important and exciting question we can ask ourselves is "What's Next?"
The Creative & Freedom
Computers and the internet have expanded the ability of individuals to not only create more but also to gain exposure for their creations. Artists both musical, visual and all are now able to show the world their work but the question begins to arise...
Who owns the rights to things put onto the internet? Many of us have been watching endless videos on youtube and other online video sites. I am wonder who owns the rights to those videos. What about when someone takes a video in a public street and posts it on the internet? Do they have the right to put other people's images on the web?
Where do the privacy rights of the public begin and end? The internet has grayed the lines between the individual's freedom and individual freedoms of privacy. This is the newest and most difficult area for the internet to establish some rules in. The wild west of privacy rights is the net...
Who will police it? Will anyone? Who will pay?
The future is uncertain but current trending has been leading to more social and less governmental or authoritarian power particularly on the internet.
Film as Philosophy
Waking Life, released in 2001 by Fox, was Directed by Richard Linklater (Dazed & Confused, Before Sunrise, Tape). This film brought many different philosophical ideas to a whole new generation. This movie validated a lot of what I felt and believed in my youth.
Philosophy is believed by many to be somewhat of an archaic study, save for the many who study it in their own homes and the ivory towers of the world. Philosophy has largely fallen under self-help in the 21st century (The Secret, Eckhart Tolle & Highly effective...) and business success (Good to Great, Art of War, etc).
Where philosophy thrives is in the world of new media. A new philosophy is evolving.
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