I read yesterday that a new blog is added to cyberspace every second. That's a lot of information.
In addition I had an induction session at the library at COFA (University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts), where I am studying for Master of Fine Arts, and glimpsed the thousands, or perhaps millions of specialist databases and repositories of knowledge that are out there. And thought that there really is far too much informatrion coming at us - an unthinkable, unimaginable torrent (of junk for the most part). And here am I, adding to it with these banal thoughts!
But yesterday I also located a rare out of print book - Jack Burhnam's seminal seventies collection of essays 'Great Western Salt Works', lurking on a shelf on the main campus, and ordered it. And numerous times lately I've used Google's astonishing Book Search tool. For the first time in human history it seems, all the information in the world is there, accessible at the touch of a button.
So, the challenge becomes not finding it, but keeping it at bay, or perhaps filtering it so that only the information we want to reach us, does reach us. And yet allowing for the random, the chaotic, the unexpected link, the metaphorical 'shout in the street'.
Watch this space.
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