The Big Think: Revisiting the Twitter / Google Uncertainity Principle

OK thinkers.  Remember college physics.  That class in quantum mechanics?

Of course you don’t.  And the Heisenberg Principle shouldn’t mean much to you either.  But let’s go over it anyway.  It stated that certain pairs of physician properties can’t be accurately know at the same time.  The most common of this is the position and the velocity of a particle or object.  You can measure, to exacting specifications the speed of an object, but you will compromise your ability to nail down the position…and the other way around.

On to new media and the association between Twitter and Google.  The both reveal a wealth of information as a function of time and content.  Twitter gives you the relevance “in the moment” and Google provides a “consolidated depth of information”.  Together, they create the yin/yang to understanding contemporary relevance of information.

So…you can know how relevant and timely something is (do a Twitter search) and you can see that comprehensive depth of information (do a Google search).  To a certain degree, one comes at the expense of the other.

Interesting….

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