Comments on: Nil by ears-and-eyes http://www.mgharris.net/2009/01/11/nil-by-ears-and-eyes/ Website of MG Harris, author of 'The Joshua Files' children's adventure book series Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: esruel http://www.mgharris.net/2009/01/11/nil-by-ears-and-eyes/#comment-1566 esruel Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:14:33 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=567#comment-1566 Hmmm, Most Glamorous, I can see what you mean. But if there was no outlet for information, and the information finders ceased, we would lose the ability to find things, to unearth things. The world can seem like a huge hive, at times. The capacity for creation, invention, is part of it and, related to it, the human capacity for taking in and then expelling even more information seems as vital as breathing. I do get irritated by the constant bombardment, but also fear the disappearance of it, too - especially if someone else made the decision to withhold it from me. Once the buzzing stopped, I would fear the worst! Hmmm, Most Glamorous, I can see what you mean. But if there was no outlet for information, and the information finders ceased, we would lose the ability to find things, to unearth things. The world can seem like a huge hive, at times. The capacity for creation, invention, is part of it and, related to it, the human capacity for taking in and then expelling even more information seems as vital as breathing.
I do get irritated by the constant bombardment, but also fear the disappearance of it, too – especially if someone else made the decision to withhold it from me. Once the buzzing stopped, I would fear the worst!

]]> By: MG http://www.mgharris.net/2009/01/11/nil-by-ears-and-eyes/#comment-1565 MG Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:14:28 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=567#comment-1565 I'm dealing with the perennial problem of information overload, Es. Because there's a danger of being so overloaded that I can't even find my own words any longer: in the words of T.S. Eliot "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" And in the words of Umberto Eco, "My problem is not to answer the telephone; my problem is to destroy the fax;the unrequested fax as soon as it arrives. ... e-mail account, my problem will be how not to receive anything. Because if there is something that has to reach me at any cost, it will. There will be some way by which I will be informed." I’m dealing with the perennial problem of information overload, Es.

Because there’s a danger of being so overloaded that I can’t even find my own words any longer: in the words of T.S. Eliot “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

And in the words of Umberto Eco, “My problem is not to answer the telephone; my problem is to destroy the fax;the unrequested fax as soon as it arrives. … e-mail account, my problem will be how not to receive anything. Because if there is something that has to reach me at any cost, it will. There will be some way by which I will be informed.”

]]> By: Esruel http://www.mgharris.net/2009/01/11/nil-by-ears-and-eyes/#comment-1564 Esruel Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:16:55 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=567#comment-1564 LOL! Don't know what got you going, but it was worth it! Look out world, MG has arrived! I repeat: LOL! LOL!
Don’t know what got you going, but it was worth it! Look out world, MG has arrived!
I repeat: LOL!

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