24fps....

[LBernier at tribune.com]

Jan Klimkowski write:



>Lots of people would disagree with you.  For what it's worth, I'm pretty 
>much on your (Jean's) side except to say that information can now get out to 
>more people more quickly than has ever been the case before.  And the 
>children of 24fps are already strutting their stuff in cyberspace - it's 
>just that hardly anybody's watching....

>jan

Interestingly enough, this (again, IMHO) has led to the distribution of
more DIS-information than otherwise.  For example, after the Kansas City 
bombing here in the US, there was a huge amount of data about it available 
in cyberspace, all of it wrong.  The speed with which we now expect "news" 
means that a lot of fact-checking goes out the window.

The volume of information has also given rise to a certain amount
of inertia.  One is bombarded day in and day out with an ever-increasing
array of Fact and Fancy.  Even when you put tools in people's hands to
access this information, a lot of them won't even try, which has created
a whole industry of people (like myself) whose purpose is to digest 
information and distribute it to the masses.  We have quite an impressive 
collection of databases here, and many attempts have been made to put that 
data on the desk of the "end-user" with graphical tools, but they simply 
don't know what to do with it.  Thus, I'm kept gainfully employed. ;-)

Which leads, ob-Pynchon, to an "informational elite" and an "informational
preterite."  It's all very well to say the PC/Mac puts information in the
hands of the people, but only those people with the wherewithal to use that
information, and the moola to obtain the PC/Mac in the first place.  Who
are becoming increasingly fewer.

Oh dear, I'm ranting - time to go back to work.

Jean.