http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/12/10/how-much-information-do-our-brains-download-each-day/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/12/10/how-much-information-do-our-brains-download-each-day/#comment-273989 Nathan Zeldes Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=20418#comment-273989 This is interesting data, from a worthwhile research project. That said, it's important to keep in mind that information has quality in addition to quantity. That the information I read in a week has more words than War and Peace does not necessarily mean its value - by whatever measure you like - is necessarily higher than that book's. I'm really curious to know how the quality of consumed data is trending, and hope someone will end up researching this as well. This is interesting data, from a worthwhile research project. That said, it's important to keep in mind that information has quality in addition to quantity. That the information I read in a week has more words than War and Peace does not necessarily mean its value – by whatever measure you like – is necessarily higher than that book's. I'm really curious to know how the quality of consumed data is trending, and hope someone will end up researching this as well.

]]> http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/12/10/how-much-information-do-our-brains-download-each-day/#comment-211062 Nathan Zeldes Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:34:57 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=20418#comment-211062 This is interesting data, from a worthwhile research project. That said, it's important to keep in mind that information has quality in addition to quantity. That the information I read in a week has more words than War and Peace does not necessarily mean its value - by whatever measure you like - is necessarily higher than that book's. I'm really curious to know how the quality of consumed data is trending, and hope someone will end up researching this as well. This is interesting data, from a worthwhile research project. That said, it’s important to keep in mind that information has quality in addition to quantity. That the information I read in a week has more words than War and Peace does not necessarily mean its value – by whatever measure you like – is necessarily higher than that book’s. I’m really curious to know how the quality of consumed data is trending, and hope someone will end up researching this as well.

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