Betting on Intelligence : Of Chips, Mice and Men
- 8 août 2016
- 1 min de lecture
The Key Issue: Better Governance
Competence Is What Gives Value to Information
We are now living, so it is said, in the information society. Indeed, we have never before produced so much information. But do we know what to do with it?
We are also, apparently, living in a world of communications and the European Union wants to make itself a world leader in the knowledge-based society. How are we to reconcile all these concepts of information, communication and knowledge? What kind of world are we living in and what is at stake in it?
There is nothing new about the importance of information. Primitive peoples who used fire to send each other messages were well aware of this.
What is new is that we have an increasing amount of information available.Yet, according to economic reasoning, the value of something should decrease as its quantity increases. So how does can this be the case when inform- ation has clearly become a strategic good, and without it all our activities would grind to a halt? Common sense tells us that what matters is not so much the raw material as what can be done with it. So it is our skills, our ability to exploit our knowl- edge and know-how in order to achieve the result we want that allows us to produce ever greater value as we process the 6 increasing quantity of information at our disposal.
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