It’s not just about “finding” Information. The Missions which dictate our Searches weave a complex Web of Information which could provide a wealth of experience if we could maintain the relationships between the Nuggets of Information related to a
Success in the information age hinges on manage the explosion of available information in meaningful ways. To even approach this goal requires a successful information management strategy, which revolves around the questions * “How do I find relevant information?” and its corollary: * “How do I manage the information I’ve found?”
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.
Extropy Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is, by definition, an increase in order. But what is order? Despite our intuitive sense, we lack a good operational definition of order, which seems to be tied up with complexity (see Ordained Becoming). For simple physical systems, the concepts of thermodynamics suffice, but for the real world of cucumbers, brains, books, and self-driving trucks, we don't have useful metrics for extropy. The best we can say is that extropy resembles, but is not equivalent to, information.