Flood of Information

The Web is information warehouse. Web searching makes it feasible and valuable. Anyone can post information on the Web easily and browse information from the Web easily. The emergence of social media makes it more easy. Blogs and Twitters store numerous paragraphs and sentences on the Web. All stored information becomes the target of the Web search engines. No matter how intelligent Web search engines are, the amount of information searched is increasing consistently. If this trends keep going, the value of the Web might go lower. So to speak, Unsearchable (or hard to search) information is not worth of a penny.

I predict two things: (1) The activity of editing should become more and more important. Imagine the role of magazine editor. The editor chooses topic, orders articles, admit only valuable articles from gathered articles, and re-works on the selected article. Because of the importance of this activity, current Web search engines tries to act this role on themselves. This applies to the human side. The edit of information might be valued more, not less, to the creation of information. Artists (including writers, craftsmen) might be upset at this. It is, however, a disruptive era. They'll acknowledge it at some time. (2) The fundamentals will be more valuable. The fundamentals means deep understanding. When the amount of information is manageable, it can be possible to know all topics though not in deep and it is also valuable. It's the time the word 'know- where' got spotlights. As information is flooding, it becomes harder and harder to know all topics in slightest sense. Then 'Know-how' will strike back.

Why I am writing on this topic? I recently read the following book on iphone game development and very disappointed. I got a good impression on Apress publisher until now: 'They publish only really good books.' I'll omit the word 'only' from now on.


iPhone Games Projects by PJ Cabrera

iPhone Game Projects책을 스키밍했다. 하아... appstore가 히트를 치고 있으니까 이런 쓰레기 같은 책이 나오는구나. 정독으로 시작했으나 산만하고 깊이 없는 내용에 의해 점점 책장을 빨리 넘기다가, 결국 휴지통으로 들어간 그런 책. apress, 실망이야.