ted byfield wrote a brief history on information.

hm; once tried something similar, yet nowadays i tend to agree with horst völz who says:

information is unique in the sense that it can exist without any ressources; it can grow endlessly.

i guess what makes a difference is the fact that our attention span is limited ... actually i would like to read an article about the work of shannon's wife, the programmer mary elizabeth moore.

Andrus noted that blogs and wikis are self-organizing, and theorized that if agents or analysts posted blogs and wikis on the Intelink network, then mob intelligence would ensue and facilitate a democratic process of information sharing. | nyt via technews

"search engines that can read minds" wake up.

connect what dot? that "al qaeda" became a label, a brand name as micky mouse that helps to give whatever group 15 minutes of international fame? joder! i don't know about how many groups i was reading in the last years that got connected to terror. according to bruce schneier, everyone who flies in and out the a of us is a suspect. for the next 40 years to come. have fun.

So short is love, and so long is forgetting," wrote Pablo Neruda in a testimony to the tenacity of emotional memories. How is it that emotions, positive and negative, strengthen memories for particular events in our lives? At the heart of emotional modulation of memory lies the amygdala, a structure activated by emotional stimuli. It is widely accepted that the basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) strengthens consolidation of emotional memories through its projections to widespread cortical area | neuroscience

at least it would explain why people, who work without emotion on the same topic for years seem not to remember a bit, while people who fall in love with a subject develope a nice repository after a while.