Kesher Talk

True words. Someone on one of Tacitus' threads put into words something I had been thinking for awhile:

I think we're looking at an artifact of the info age, instead of micro-management, we're all guilty of micro-analysis. Because communications have reached Arthur C. Clarke's predicted state where" everyone in the world can talk to everyone else at the same time", there is a huge amount of info out there and a huge number of people out there scanning it for the slightest bit of meaning. In previous ages, the President would make a speech every few weeks and the newsprint would report on it and that's were you got your info. Now you've got 14,321 bloggers, pundits, underemployed day-traders and cyber-lurkers analyzing the verbal and written droppings of every Deputy-assistant-undersecretary's gofer for meaning.

All-in-all the extra access to info is a good thing, but don't forget the classical "signal-to-noise" problem.

However, Bush either isn't aware of this or diesn't think it's important. He does make a speech about once a month, but meanwhile a dozen memes have been born, grown, aged, and died within the public discourse.

posted by Judith @ 11/19/2003 11:57:13 PM