[Sigia-l] Serious Discussion of IA Research?

[Ed Housman]

The laws of entropy apply to information.  Info, since it
involves a form of some kind, slowly falls apart and decays
into chaos, or gets lost, or otherwise disappears over time.  

The enscrptions on Egyptian pillars will inevitably crumble
and be irretrievable.  The context of every information 
artifact will also be lost as uncertainty about everything
slowly increases.

Information is not immortal.  All we've built will evaporate
when the sun finally explodes.

--Ed
--- Boniface Lau <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:

> 
> > From: Conal Tuohy
> >  
> > To me, it's precisely the ACQUISITION and STORAGE of that data which
> > constitutes "information". Not the data themselves. 
> 
> Are you saying that information is the act of acquiring and storing
> data?
> 
> If indeed information is the actions themselves, not the object being
> acted on, then the moment those actions stop, information disappeared.
> Thus, information cannot be preserved. Of course, many will tell you
> that information can indeed be preserved.
> 
> 
> Boniface
> 
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