Thursday, 25 August 2011

Information Ecology.

Every objects in this world has a cycle itself to start off, to reach to,and finally dies off and reborn. This cycle repeatly occuring without the time knowing. For example,a human borned,raised,reaches it glory,and slowly dies off.Another human will replace the position and continue the cycyle. It is same as a paper.A paper is made from a tree,go through a process,being used by human,and been throw to dustbin,recycled and turn to another things. This cycle applies to all paper,and to the informatic world today.

Information ecology refers to the information cycle which is contain of node and information. The cycle is depending only on node which is act as the middle man while the information is flow through it in order to reach the destination. Nodes and information is depending on each other. For example, node is the blood vessels and the haemoglobin carries all the information needed in the body. By using the blood vessels,the haemoglobin are able to carries oxygen to all the organs. The relationship between node and flow is just like that,without one of them, they will be no connection.

The node and flow connection is being affected by 4 categories which every factor is interconnect with each other and thus create a cycle for this information life.


Interdependency.
If there is no nodes,information could not be tranform into a breand new information and send out.Same goes to if there is no information, node has no value on it.Thus in order to survive,both of the element need to rely on each other. It is applied on how we have to rely on how a mother need to rely on the son to raise her when she is old,and how a son need to rely on his mother to raise him up to an adult. This relationship is consistent and no exchangeable.

Change.
If it were to compare, it is just like a cell phone. For smart phone, when you have a new version of application, the smartphone itself have to upgrade in order to compatible with the application. When the version is changed, it is not only upgraded the application but also the smartphone system as well in order to be always compatible.

Time-Boundness
As the technology era is keep on changing, it can happen in no time. when can you know the hacker would hack your system? How can you predict what will happen in the next one minute? No one can guarantee that others will not overcome you if you could not change yourself to keep on advanced that them. Changes can happen in no time, but it has to follow the pace given and in order to survive, the node and flow of information have to change on time to catch up the pace. It applies in our daily life that in order to follow the pace, we have to rush or work harder to catch up the pace.

Differenciation.
Do you know why high class women always eager to buy high branded bags and shirt? It is just to differenciate he/she with other human being. It applies the same as the relationship between the nodes and information. The node or information have to be unique and different in order to show the worthiness of cycling the information and pass around.

As a conclusion, nodes and flow of information is important to rely on each other to get ahead of others to continue survive. It is just same as human, as the technology is more advance from time to time, if human could not follow the pace, it is useless to have an advance technology.




1 comment:

  1. Hi Chea! This really make me understand more about the nodes and flows in an interesting way! Good examples were used to make it easier to understand. I like the example of the haemoglobin and the blood vessels to represent the nodes and flows.

    Without information, the nodes had no values in it. Totally agree with it. Also, with the existence of the flows, nodes just able to perform the good flow in the network. They are depend to each other in order to carried out a smooth flow of information in a network.

    Overall of this post, it let me understand more about nodes and flows from other point of views which using the interesting descriptions. Thank you for this post because it's really easy to understand! Thank you Chea! Keep it up!

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