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The other day, I went online, after reviewing all of my online newsletters, and the latest information in all the industries that I track, and after reviewing all the political news and what have you, I decided I would use the Internet, mankind's library of information, to learn something new. So, I thought I might write something interesting into the search engine, and see what came up.
So here is what I typed into Google; "is there anything really relevant online?" Please note that I did not get one single reference back to that question, there was no article with that title, and apparently no one else is ever asked that question before. I find that very odd, because I think it is a relevant question, and one we should all be considering.
After all if Google and the Internet is to become our add-on memory, and a library of information for the world, certainly there should be something, anything, I don't really care what it is, which is relevant online. Some new, something blue, something, I don't care, just something interesting, an original thought perhaps. I post original thoughts online all the time, but I have trouble finding very many others, ones that are not mere rehashes of previous stuff.
Unfortunately, when my search results came back, no one had ever posed that question online (which I find hard to believe) or at least no one thought to write about it, and consider the billion or so bloggers out there? You see, there was no answer to it, just other side references, on similar topics. This leads me to believe that maybe there isn't anything really relevant online, and therefore my answer spoke for itself.
Indeed, I am quite concerned about this if we are billing the Internet as the most important new technology for humankind. If we are so worried that we need to build $100 laptops for people in Africa, and $35 portable computer tablets for the children in India so that they can have access online, then exactly what are we going to tell them that will be relevant to their lives there?
They say information is power, but apparently too much information is the opposite, in fact, we are drowning in information (not me personally, I can't get enough, I mean the population as a whole), but much of it is irrelevant. And, once you scour through all the topics and subjects in all the major categories, there is not a whole lot left to find out on the Internet that you might be interested in.
Does that mean you are shallow minded because you can't find something to pique your curiosity, or is it because you've been online so long and read so much information that you are oblivious to the rest of it? When you walk into a library is there anything relevant inside that library? Depends, often there is, sometimes there isn't, depends on where your mind is, and we already have libraries all over the place, so what's with the internet.
With regards to libraries, yes there probably is relevant information, if you're in the mood to look at, but if your life is so busy being entertained with multimedia, then eventually it's going to take a lot to get you excited, and if it takes a lot of very interesting new information to keep your mind engaged in intellectual genius level topics. I hope please consider all this.
About this Author
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it's hard to write 20,000 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/
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