Information as a Resource

Information is everywhere! Every single day we are bombarded with tons of new information that our brain could never store it all. This concept, known as information obesity, is becomming more and more common, mainly because of how easy it is to transmit information in today's modern world. The article distributed in class, "Information as a Resource", points out the meme theory, which explains how information spreads. The way information spreads can be related to Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest, in that some information is forgotten, and other information survives, and it spreads like wildfire. Gossip is one popular type of this information. With today's world, we communicate instantly through email and text messaging, that hundreds of people can catch wind of something within minutes. The sphere this information is transmitted in is labelled by Vladimir Vernadsky as the Noosphere. The article points out that we are exchanging information at "light speed", which is a very deep concept to consider. This is because the world keeps progressing, so you must ask yourself if we have reached a time of "maximum dynamism", or if technology will continue to advance and information will ever be able to be transmitted on a larger, faster scale.

The following link describes the history and relation between the noosphere and biosphere, as described in the article "Information as a Resource"
http://www.lawoftime.org/noosphere/theoryandhistory.html