Notes to self

Chewed through this tought train whilst out running with the dog this morning: Twitter/facebook have a noise to signal ratio- lots of noise generally. few interesting informations. I used to keep a dgital scrapbook. then it became easier just to keep delicious- this is only possible because files are no longer deleted so links never die like they used to, therefore no need to store anything- another example of generally moving towards cloud culture. However, we are soon arriving at the infinite library- (www) that only grows, never diminishes. From this comes the information politic that it's never worth holding onto a piece of information (a picture, a scrap, a quote, a song) as there are always more, new informatiae out there (ooh, just made that word up- like it. 'informatiae' TM ©®) so its easier to find new than to keep anything old. From this comes two rival camps- those in favour of perpetual learning (an given the infinite library, rejection of any infomation possesion) and those in favour of preserving information (a limited finite library of possessed knowlege) Thus we are arriving at Jorge Luis Borges library of Babel. Thus the parables of truth become part of the library. experience and knowlege itself becomes a tribal belief.