Sir Francis Bacons Advancement of Learning and Information on the Internet :: Internet Net World Wide Web Media

Sir Francis Bacons Advancement of Learning and Information on the meshIn the concord of Ecclesiastes we are t doddery, Of making many books in that location is no end and untold study is weariness to the flesh. (Eccles. 1212) If we compare web sites to books, then it follows that there is no end to the amount of randomness put onto the net income, and that studying, or, browsing the Internet is tiring. Additionally, we read, For in more wisdom is much grief and he who increases association increases anxiety. (Eccles. 118) The sheer measurement of information found on the Internet must increase our knowledge and this we read - that anxiety follows. Bacons tells us that what we collect is not quantity, but quality of information plus a corrective spice.Bacon reasons that the biblical writers were not thinking of pure knowledge of nature and universality. He suggests that they were referring to peoples attempts to rule themselves using knowledge of good and evil, in which cas e depending no more on God. Therefore, there is no grief in learning.How giving a quantity of knowledge can completely fill the understanding? Nay, the mind can never be satisfied with a quantity of knowledge states Bacon. He quotes the Scripture, the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. (Eccles. 18) There is nothing in this world that isnt reached by peoples inquiry and invention. If this is the capableness of the mind, then it is clear that there is no problem with having likewise much knowledge. The problem is the quality of knowledge therein.The fact that the Internet is bristling full of information, too much information for a single human being to comprehend, is not the problem, but the real issue is in the quality of the information therein. The old lesson on Internet exploreing is when you enter for example, computers, and the search engine returns 10 of an abominable 8,102,365 matches. You would exclaim, Wow There is a lot of information in the re. Then you would ask, How do you know what is good? Where is the quality? Portals (who run search engines) these days are adding value to their searched information thereby returning high quality results, often grouped by appropriate categories, thus pinpointing efficacious information for the learning public.Yes, the quality of information needs to increase, but Bacon tells us that we need a corrective spice. The reason we need this spice is that the information may be of high quality but be vitriolic or malign in nature.