Friday, May 7, 2010

When is too much of a good thing, simply TOO much?

The paradox of information and technology is that in an attempt to make our lives easier it is in fact making it more and more difficult to find exactly what we are looking for. Today, human beings are creating more information faster that we can organize and consume it. You'd think a plethora of information would in fact be a good thing. However, what is the point of all this? What is the motivation for human beings to seek so much information. It is just the desire to know? Is it the need to create? What is it?

As I've been considering these things and in my frustration of not finding information I need, and not being found when I have information to share. In the end, I have the realization of the following concerning man (in the plural sense, in the way it is used to capture mankind):
  1. Man has a vacuum that can never be filled with information or knowledge. Otherwise all of us would be already exploding.
  2. Man desires to create, communicate, share. (I like to believe that this is because we were created in God's image and according to His likeness" Gen 1:26.)
  3. Man is limited. We simply are incapable of knowing and understanding everything.
well... let's dwell on that for a bit.

to be continued...

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