CORE BREACH: Thoughts about Information Overload Core breach immanent! system about ta explode. Kuntainment naught possible - too much information ta hold! Data purge required: erasin' history. Excess information invites fossilization & for optimal operation more system resources must be freed Nadya: Is fossilization caused by excessive information? Gus: Well, too much knowledge can be stifling if it isn't integrated well. Tim: In some ways information is like food: we need time to digest it Bill: Perhaps that's how many old people feel: there is already so much information in their skulls that they feel surfeit. Little additional information can be assimilated. Nadya: Ah, the entanglements of minutia! Can we ever escape it? Liao: Transcendence is possible. However, I cannot explain how . . . ===================================================================================== from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Reflections on information integrity, data overload, and memory purges. KEYWORDS: information theory, info-entropy, data purges, information integrity Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2000 Táiběi, Taiwan / Finished: 2019 Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/CyberPoems/mutant.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/CyberPoems/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/CyberPoems/cult.htm