Thursday, 27 February 2014

Information


So let’s start all over again. Empty the cup. All over again.

After huge, massive loads of information have entered my cerebrum, me being unable to hold back the throngs of bits and bytes with my thalamus, I resign, sitting in the train back home again.

I start all over again. Empty the cup. All over again.

Today you can get information everywhere. No wonder, for it is the age of information in an information society. Countless websites torture you with news of the world. Even if you restrict your interests to scientific websites and news, it is amazing what you can find. Truckloads of innovation, giant heaps of breakthroughs, countless wizards of the modern age, inhabit newspapers, TV and the web. It is fantastic.

But I start all over again. I will empty the cup. All over again.

Here, where I am sitting, it has become peaceful now. Although we are moving at a speed of 220km/h it is rather quiet. Is that an illusion? Or is everything else an illusion: synthetic biology, nanotechnology, stem cell research, IVF, nuclear power.

I start all over again. I am emptying the cup right now. All over again.

Finally, I stop considering all these technoscientific advances. Even my private worries stop bothering me. It is easy. The secret is: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7…

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