Building information understanding
Information literacy – Social fractals – Information abstractions – Designed concepts
Information is complex AND
anyone can build towards the holistic beast
It's complex is how it forms and how it gets to us
It has structure and history, and there are ways to approach it that is not general knowledge even if we all recognize the terms. Many of us are vibing our way through life, and it's making us frustrated.
It's complex because people are inextricably intertwingled in it.
We have layers upon layers of information contributing to our everyday navigation of the world. These can get gnarly, and they show that information has a ripple effect. Good information literacy will help us better understand where we're experimenting, how it's going, and how we can recalibrate.
It's complex because our understanding is building through time, with shifts and permutations as we stumble our way along.
All of these come together in a variable cadence made precise at the point of data building, within humanity, and now is also consistently shifted into a binary computational substrate.
I love information
Where frameworks from the other three sections come together into examples of how information can be more humanist.
I am the first to admit that my geeky joy is not how most people react to the complexity. But, we are dealing with an everyday level of information complexity and manipulation that is far beyond what most of us perceive. Dealing with them at the point of ingestion and entry is in our best interest. We need good information tools (software, internet, libraries) built by nimble and thoughtful experts (developers, designers, scientists) to enable the organizations (businesses, governments, societies) that couldn't exist without...humanity.
People.
Everyone.
