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It is like saying body organs are collections of cells. It is correct, but too abstract to tell anything.
by mrwnmonm 4y ago
It is like saying body organs are collections of cells. It is correct, but too abstract to tell anything.
- canadiantim 4y agoYeah that’s fair, though understanding our body organs as having cells as fundamental units is actually an insight that leads to a lot of other actionable intelligence we wouldn’t have if we weren’t able to ‘atomize’ them into smaller constituent parts. I get what you’re saying though and I do agree that in general it’s not radically helpful just thinking of the internet as information flow. But it depends on the problem set. For example when wondering how people or various communities get informed, identifying their news sources (and thus information flow) is invaluable in understanding their most likely held positions on things. That being said, this doesn’t just include the internet so I guess it goes back to your point of information flow, esp. just regarding the internet, is prly too abstract to be of much radical use without further differentiating it or incorporating other insights
- mrwnmonm 4y agoI agree, most books does this actually, they have different perspectives on how a specific kind of flow affects social behavior. But no one says it is just a flow of information, and that's it, bye bye, I solved it. I saw some programmers do exactly that before. Because we are addicted to abstraction.