What Happens When the Qulity is Removed

The Meltdown at Three Mile Island, an ugly image for the nuclear power plants that were in operation and the plants that are in operation.  This is a message of deception and miscommunication. 

            This picture was taken at night, which aloud the haze of the normal lights in the back ground to produce a haze of an unnatural type.  This portrays the message that everything is going wrong and situation is as bad as the media is saying it is.  When the photograph was taken, it was also at the exact moment the red lights on the cooling tower are lit up.  This allows us as the general public to think that all has gone wrong because there is red and red is bad.  The cooling tower of a nuclear reactor is nothing more than a heat sink for the steam in the secondary water system to cool off, after all of its energy is used in the steam turbines to create electricity, and return to liquid form before repeating the process.  The words of the picture are in 2 different sizes and colors.  The small white letters “The Meltdown at” are placed in location so that the background around it is completely black.  Even though you might not be able to read them, this allows them to jump out at you from a distance.  The words “Three Mile Island” are in a much LARGER font and also in the color RED, which as I said before portray something bad, negative, or evil.  The whole of this picture is something gone wrong, gloom, destruction, death, and chaos.  This is a very good picture to explain something that you as a reader have no knowledge on and to sway your thoughts.

            This tactic of illusion is a very useful tool when trying to explain something that is bad, but was blown out of proportion by the media and government due to the communication at that time and the knowledge that people had on the subject.  Most people in this day and age still do not have a very good idea on how nuclear power works or what’s involved in the safety of ensuring that if an accident occurs that nothing goes airborne. 

            If Nuclear Power interests you and you have a question about it, please ask and I will answer it?

Information Overload

Today we will focus on in the realm of OVERLOAD.  Most people still don’t understand that all things are good for us and all things are bad for us.  We must take everything in life with its proper portions.  People, though, just don’t understand that concept and just want to take it all in and as fast as they can.  Then they wonder why they like millions others around the world; have medical problems, obesity, poor nutrition, migraines, or just poor health.  If I sat at a computer 24/7 trying to gather up all information available to me and didn’t get off until I had absorbed it all in, I would be a dead man sitting in front of my computer.  We as a society must learn to take information with a certain proportion size, not just give it to me now, now, now.  Most people when they want stuff like information, they remind me of a quote in a movie called “What About Bob?”, when Bob says, “gimme, gimme, gimme, I need, I need, I need”.  If they would just pace themselves and take everything in small portions, then they would realize that they are full without taking in a ton of information.  But your status quo is on how much more you know than anyone else.  Nobody wants to seem like the dumb one on a topic, so they try and learn as much as possible until their brain explodes and they have a mental breakdown, and then wonder why it happened.  So do we live as mindless zombies that act as though they were a source of all known information on the planet or do we act as people who know how to say “I DON’T KNOW, but I can find out”?

Quality of the Digital Life

My area of discussion and interest is on Information Overload, Information Quality, and Learning.  The interest in this area intrigues me due to its nature on how information is looked at and what people see it as.  Quality is a big part of how information is perceived by individuals looking it up for knowledge on a specific subject.  If something is put out on the internet as a fact when it is a false statement then when someone uses this information it destroys all credibility of that person and all sites used by them.  The overload part of the topic also interest me because of how most people say that they can process so much information but in all reality its lie.  Most people can only remember a given amount of information at a single time and with the world’s online data usage increasing by an astronomical rate every year, which is just more and more information that we will soon forget or not even comprehend in the first place.  As a whole, our society is still trying to keep up with this information ramp up that has happened in the past decade.  We are trying to learn as it were, on how to deal with people basically living online and pushing aside the wonders on the living world around us.  Most would rather see a picture rather than visit, but referring back to quality, nothing is as good or can live up to actually seeing the picture of it with your own eyes and not through a digitally enhanced, photo shop, drawing.