Re: How do we use a huge library?

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From: Sameer Parekh
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:14

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In article <1992Jul22.161323.10161@math.waterloo.edu> arpepper@math.waterloo.edu (Adrian Pepper) writes:
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>You are merely talking about the information explosion, and the
>difference between information and data.  I used to think we should
>refer to the "data explosion", until I realized that a concise
>illustration of the difference between information and data is to say
>"data is what is left over after information explodes".
>
>Adrian.


	I think use of the term 'data' isn't very descriptive. It's a very
"impersonal" word.  I think that it is best to say that raw information, is
just information, and then when it is distilled it becomes KNOWLEDGE.
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Subject: Re: How do we use a huge library?
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