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V. Bush dystopic?
He doesn't strike me as particularly gloomy. He's a scientist, and as such
believes that information when properly processed is knowledge, and
knowledge is cumulative. That is, if the methodology is correct, one only
has to learn something once. I think where he is frustrated, it is with
lost opportunities through lack of organization and access, and through
duplication of effort.
I still hold out hope, myself, that if we could just parse all this stuff
right, all of this information must add up to something. Of course, we
don't really have an information explosion, we have an explosion of access
to information, nearly all of which would have existed without the internet
in some form or another.
I think Bush is excited, too, by the prospect of personal empowerment. If
one could easily get at whatever one needs in an instant, think what he
could do with all the time he saved. Well, it sort of like that, and sort
of not.
pb
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