Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Phonograph, Ikea, Jorge Luis Borges

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The structured data must have meaning ( i. e ikea manual ) Data might be structured & have syntax but have no meaning to us. The structure of data must have meaning to you in order for it to be informative. Library is potentially infinite ( 25 ^ 1,312 books) Each hexagon has 4 walls with shelves. 35 books / shelf (therefore 700 books / hexagon ) (cont. ) Time it takes to count to one billion (one second at a time) = 31 years. Therefore to figure out his name might take you over 30 x 10 to the power of 54 years. * data is any break in the sameness and uniformity in the world * ( out of 18,455 dentists who were polled ) Dynamic data that tells us about the system. Due to the idiom of the communication & the emoticon use, origin: after 1995. Misinformation is defined as false or inaccurate information without deliberate intention to deceive.