Search Engines

I ask myself why are search engines so popular. Why do search for anything at all. Maybe we as humans are inherently curious and that drives our need to find out more and more. I think the rules of the game are chaning, there was a time when information was precious and was equated with power. Even the speard of news was limited by the media available and speed of the spread was compared to today quite slow. Today the abundance of information available has made it less valuable. It is as stated by the law of demand and supply. The more a commodity is available the less is its value. So today there are very few things you cannot find out if you really want to.  The kind of information outlets available make it almost impossible to keep anything hidden once it is in any electronic format. Many companies have now gone back to keeping the really confidential information in good old paper. 

Search has become too easy, the desire to learn has reduced. Information is easily available. Students today do not need to read and understand in detail the theories. The information is available ot them. Simulation today is more about writing computer programmes than about the theory behind it. With the tremendous processing power at our disposal we are begining to rely on that power more and more.

Abs – the thinker