• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    It’s a sick joke that we’ve celebrated being in the “information age” for the last 20-25 years, and now that information is being obfuscated by various means again.

    SEO, censorship, paywalls.

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      7 months ago

      it’s not the information age, it’s the data age.

      Information implies usefulness. Data is just data. Could be right, could be wrong, who knows.

      • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        You could say the same thing about information, though. Information doesn’t necessarily imply usefulness. There is an infinitude of information in the universe which is useless to us.