People generally do not like being spied on, but what people like even less than the actual spying is having to recognize that it is going on when they had previously been able to pretend it was no…| LibrarianShipwreck
Humans sneeze information, and while most of us then just throw away the tissue, there are others who greedily fish this rag from the trash to analyze the traces left behind (I know, kind of gross)…| LibrarianShipwreck
To what extent does a motto such as “Don’t be evil,” truly mean anything? After all, such smiling simplicity in a mission statement may sound good even as it solicits scoffs, but is that three word…| LibrarianShipwreck
1. A History of Too Much Information Modern technology allows for the accumulation and utilization of information on a historically unprecedented scale. While organizations in previous times – whet…| LibrarianShipwreck
1. How might a person understand a collection of millions of phone records? The easy answer is that they would not. Millions of records is too much for a single person to try to wrestle with. There…| LibrarianShipwreck
Some of the appeal of new technologies is the ease with which they can be used. Though we may recognize, on a subconscious level, that these devices represent impressive feats of mining, engineerin…| LibrarianShipwreck
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