“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.” ProblemLevelsCompanyInformationDemandHighestInnovationRateSolveClientsSpectrumAnalyticsRate Of Change Author:Mike McGavick
“And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.” MayMadeMightLevelsWorryInformationHigherComfortUsersInference Author:Edward Felten
“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.” MovingBitsLevelsTechnologyImpossibleInformationLeavingMeaninglessFragmentsCyberpunkPersonal Information Book:Burning Chrome Source: Burning Chrome
“Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.” MeanUniverseLevelsInformationQuantumTransfersInterference Book:Paths to Otherwhere Source: Paths to Otherwhere
“It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.” ThinkingKindAgeTurnsUniverseLevelsInformationStrangeEvolutionBuiltMachinesAccountsInsightAll KindsQuantumMysticalLeaksAmplifyMystical Experiences Book:Paths to Otherwhere Source: Paths to Otherwhere
“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.” ImportantArtistProcessLevelsRecordsInformationIntentionVisualsProvidingAggression Author:Leon Golub
“...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.” MindHumansMeanBodyUniverseEnergyVoiceImaginationLevelsPowerfulWonderInformationComputerRadioSensitiveSufficientExplorationOrgansHuman BodyParticlesTelescopesReceiverEnergy Levels Author:Terence McKenna
“Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.” LongDifferentHumanityLevelsAttentionNovelFocusStyleInformationObjectsPeriodsLowsTasksSeekingToleranceEngagedStreamsBoredomMultipleStimulusConcentratingCognitiveHigh LevelDickensStimulationHyperSwitching Author:N. Katherine Hayles
“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.” KnowsWorldOpportunityLevelsDealsProgressGenerationsInformationIgnoranceHigherPerformancesComplexesMachineryHigher Level Book:Making Sense Source: Making Sense
“But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.” AgeLevelsHalfCenturyInformationChangedIgnorancePerceptionShockEnteringFamiliarityNumbInsensitiveInformation AgeCumulative Author:Anna Quindlen
“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.” KindSeemsAmericaMovingPoetryUniverseProcessLevelsInformationPoetPerceptionTreatsSurfaceTendenciesDaily LifeOpennessParallelsReceptiveParallel UniverseBombarded Author:Rita Dove
“The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.” WorldFirstsHumansTwoAgeBornLevelsRiskInformationDangerLowsDecadesMedicalExpertsPriestsInsightfulAtomsRadiationDrsCultSecrecyConcealedResearchersAtomic BombHiroshimaAudaciousLow LevelHuman Health Author:Stewart Udall
“Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.” WayMayBookIdeasStoriesShowsLevelsIssuesOur LivesRiskShareInformationTelevisionDepthBackgroundsReportsShockNew WaysSuperficialTelevision Shows Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.” ValuesAbilityLevelsTechnologyGenerationsInformationDependsIntellectualTasksMachinesIncreaseManageComplexityContrastInformation Technology Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given the level of access and information he was able to discuss, he had to be older.” PersonsIdeasMightAbleCoursesGivenProcessLevelsFiveGenerationsInformationSourceMonthsInternetLateAccessDialogueDevelopingFortyCorrespondenceSavvy Author:Laura Poitras