[0406] The Issue 183

The speaker states that as we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysteious. Actually, the public often mentions the current era is a "digital era" with information explosion. We can get any kinds of the knowledge and information more and more easily, just in a click, but we seems to get loss in the great labrynth of the information more and more easily, too.

The invention of the internet connects every people all around the world. Everybody can share his own knowledge on the internet. When we surf on the internet and search for some useful informations, it provides  not only sufficient knowledge, but also too much more ones. We call this situation as "Information overload". We acquires more knoledge, but we are confused more easily. Some people even refuses to log on the internet because of the fear about the information overload. 

However, the accumulation of the knowledge is not always a trouble. In fact, the knowledge been established systemically is the foundation of current science. Just as Isaac Newton says, "If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the soulders of Giants", almost every new discovery in the science is based on the effort of the *former scientists. Without the study of the great achievement of the science, we can not quickly and easily apply the their ideas into another new discovery.

As what we discussed above, what we need to learn is not the refusal of the knoledge, but is how to use these knowledge efficiently. We are not controlled bby the overload information, on the contrary, we must know how to control it. We need to establish a simple but efficient way to acquire what are the truly useful  ones for us, and construct our own pyramid of knolwdge with sound structure. It is the best attitude to face the information explosion without get lost.

As a result, the statement, which claims as we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysteious, would be partially true. Things might still become more complex, but if we find the right way, we can take advantage of those knowledge much more easily.