DocAndersen
One of the things I noticed yesterday was that because of the sharing requirements I put on myself as part of the overall Family History project, I don’t use my Canon DSLR as much. I am going to start taking pictures with my Canon again! I can’t share those here on Virily, but that isn’t the goal of taking pictures. It is to have them for the future, to give to my kids as just another memory of what dear old dad used to do. From sharing pictures, videos and my sharky weather channel I strive to get the information out of my head and into the wild. I do, however, understand the reality of filters. It doesn’t make you a bad person to have a filter you apply to the information you share. It just means you have filters.
The filters, however, that exist beyond people re the real issue. Pundits and experts have said the information age is here. But is it? Can you search and find pictures of your Aunt Jean? Specifical go to Google and search for a relative. You won’t find pictures of that person if no one has tagged them in the various search engines. You will instead be offered the opportunity to find many Aunt Jeans’ The information age would lie beyond that search and provide you with the information you needed. Its why I argue that we aren’t there yet. In part because for the foreseeable future, human capabilities still outstrip computers. The areas where computers provide value aren’t the ones that pull data from the analog (human) to the digital.
Collectively human beings have more skills and knowledge that we have digitized. Oh, it is possible, now, to digitize more, But for now, and this is focused on the now, we aren’t there yet. Labeling is what we as humans do. It is why we’ve pushed down the path of Machine Learning and Artifical Intelligence. Although I have to say I hate term artificial intelligence and prefer the phrase human created intelligent. It isn’t artificial as something real created it. The machines we’ve built are limited by our own flaws. One of which is that there is more power in the information you hold. Than the information you share (sometimes). Until that situation is always there is only power in the information shared, than we remain outside the information age. This is not about the memories that we sometimes cannot share and sometimes should not share. This rather is the information required to solve problems. What I call the expert culture. I know how to solve your problem. IT will cost 200 dollars. Someday information will be freely available to solve problems.
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Do you have information on your computer, or in your head that has never been shared?
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Yes
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No
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Do you share that information freely?
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Yes
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No
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Do you (from the movie taken) have a particular set of skills for solving a specific problem?
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Yes
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No
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I try to share only the most interesting and appealing things
That is a fair process – the question, of course, would be how do you share? Would ever share the answer to a problem in a password locked PDF file?
Is the answer mine to share?
well if it is shared knowledge, then yes. if it is yours specifically which would be the focus of this question, then it is yes yours to share.
Truly the only limits to sharing have to do with the legal limits.
Even that’s iffy… Who has the right to say which is which?
Luckily the world of IP law continues to mature and evolve. for now, there are a number of specific laws that limit the use of and sharing of information and the delineated ownership of said information.
Trademark, copyright, and patent all have different rules around the use of the information with the designation.
But I can quote “Theft is property, ergo property is theft” and even though that phase is from a copyrighted work, Proudhon can’t sue me as quotation is considered fair use. You and I will both generate some revenue from that usage, yet it isn’t considered copyright infringement…
Now you are getting into the legal reality of copyright. Everything that has a copyright tag becomes hard to defend in the world of fair use. If it is published with the intent of informing, then fair use applies. Patents and trademarks are then the next evolution. You cannot, however, today, patent an idea. Or for that matter a dream.
I expect you can do either if you’re clever enough
I have many things I will never share. Not that anybody cares but it is that personal to me.
First off, I do care about the personal information that people don’t want to share and I completely understand why that information is never shared. This is more the information that solves a specific problem. Would you withhold that information?
I think we actually store so much data and information, about anything, on our computers and especially in our heads, in the conscious mind and especially in the subconscious mind. Maybe our way of determining priorities, whether important or not, feasible or not, and whether or not data and information can be shared which is different is the filter system that you mean. It may also include filters to determine what can be given free of charge and which ones to pay. Maybe what is now a paid solution tomorrow will be free, but tomorrow there will still be solutions that must be paid.
Just maybe, because so far, that’s the transactional and commercial paradigm of our way of life and civilization.
That is an interesting take, Albert. The concept of information brokers and information merchants is one I’ve talked about for many years. When we are talking information that solves problems, would you be willing to pay for that information (if it was guaranteed to work).
The concept of selling any product is to create a problem, generate fear or inconvenience, then offer a solution.
It’s more the concept of known good information versus something that may work (or may not). I suspect most people would pay for known good information.
I agree with your opinion. My previous response might be “cynicism” over the basic idea of selling in general.