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Will I noticed some time ago that there is so much data coming in and yet it seems that working out what it is saying is left to chance that it will be pulled out and looked at...an impression only.
The net is the really big hope as with the net information can flow so much faster yet to form an overview seems to be getting more difficult... I read a fair bit and what staggers me is the complexity with any filed.. just looking at the various forms of math had me just reading the headings for night after night without even getting a glimpse of what each category could provide..no doubt there are people who can manage more information than me yet the same problem must present to then at some stage...
I agree with your music teachers observation yet knowing such does not take us further it seems as to make sense of the incoming data one needs someone to specialise in a limited field... they then think they know it all..which maybe in respect of the speciality they do but linking all the knowledge in an over view seems to me close to impossible... each specialist needs to be able to condense their research of many years into a short simple statement so it can flow with other simple statements...not easy..humans like to sound as if they know all about what they specialise in and therefore making a simple statement is not that simple. How can you ask someone who has spent years on a subject to ..put it in a sentence that sums it up correctly and without qualification of the finner points. State you life in a sentence of no more than 30 words... not easy.
On the bright side at least we are getting data accumulations and with the net so much of it is accessible for all to think about what it may be telling us.. but how to get overviews is the problem I think will be more difficult than gaining data. How to link the data without the boxes and make it all fit one larger picture I wonder.
alex
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