Information Revolution

Characteristic of information
 It is a thing
 It has a logical place
 Where it can be found
o On a self
o In a file system
o In a category (katalog)
 Managing information
is managing categories
 It recuires experts
 And it still hard to find

The future is not what you think.

Digital information is different, take different form, even have no fixed material form.
So we can rethink information beyond material constraints.
We must rething.
Tidak ada ‘Top’ untuk world wide web.
You can look at it from many point of view.
If you have to use a ‘Top’ node.
We recommended either this node or subject list.
Early websites built on familiar assumptions about information.
As a thing with a logical place on shelf or on file system or category
Look what you found.
Yahoo faced with the possibility that they could.
Orgnize things with no physical constraints.
Added the shelf back.
Since the web has been challenging our most bacis assumption. We learnned that we
might not need complex herarchies to find information
A has 9,120,000,000 indexed pages * 551 words = 5.02512*10^12
Over 5 Trillion keywords. Almoust 500 billion links.
There is no shelf. The links alone are enough.

(Mengapa Yahoo kalah bersaing dengan google. Yahoo membatasi tiap URL hanya di
tiga category. Ini untuk menghindari spam. Mereka berusaha membuat limit tertinggi
untuk melihat dunia dari kacamata mereka. Mereka keliru mengantisipasi, ujung dari
perkembangan masif informasi di internet, mestinya jika anda dapat cukup link maka
tidak perlu lagi hirarki. There is no shelf. The links alone are enough.)

5 Trillion words and we’re just getting started… together we create more information
than the experts. (look at Wikipedia). Wikipedia has 1740 million words in 7,5 million
articles. English Wikipedia alone has over 609 million words. Roughly fifteen times as
many as the next larges ensyclopedia, Ensyclopedia Britannica.
Wikipedia has 282,874 contributors. And we organize the information ourself. Web 2.0
wikipedia statistic. we organize the information without material constraints. 3 tags and it
is now all stored in 3 places at once. Without folder, restriction, limiting categories.
Everyting is miscellaneous. Fasilitas ini bukan trik hebat. They change basic rule of
order. We no longger just find information together we can make information found us. It
is informatiion explotion in information revolution and responsibility create, critique,
organize and understand is all of us. Are we ready?