Quote: The explosion of data
January 25th, 2006 | Published in Culture, Quotes, Technology
The explosion of data… has all but destroyed the premise of understandability…. Instead of carrying on the ancient project of philosophy—attempting to discover the “truth” of things—we direct our energies to managing information. The computer, our high-speed, accessing, storing, and sorting tool, appears to be a godsend. It increasingly determines what kind of information we are willing to traffic in; if something cannot be written in code and transmitted, it cannot be important.
—Sven Birkets, The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), p. 75