Learning to listen to the earth - is it a good thing?

This amazing video shows how we are learning to listen to the earth! Did you know there are more ‘things’ on the internet than people!?

There are sensors under the roads, in shops, in our offices, homes, schools and our phones - they’re all reporting things to us and about us.

The key is DIKW is the key, moving from:

• captured data to
• usable information to
• knowledge to
• wisdom

I suppose that as long as we gather the data in order to glean information that we can use as knowledge so that we become more wise it is a good thing.

 

For example, I don't like being filmed by hundreds of closed circuit tv cameras wherever I go - but I understand why it is necessary to capture that data, so that the information can help the police to get knowledge about criminals and criminal hot spots so that they can advice people to be wise about where they go, and what they do when they go out.

I've blogged about some of this here (see the post on wolframalpha which I think is very interesting in this regard), and here for a neuroscientific perspective, and this one which deals with strong artificial intelligence.