User:Nadiners/ Thesis draft

The Nature of information is impossible to Unpublish

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Data, from 'Datum' in latin meaning 'something given'. Data constantly gives, but how do you give data back? I found that David Thorne's email thread with Jane, illustrate the essence of digital information. Once data is created it can only disseminate, the very idea of receiving your data back is absurd.

Before entering the topic I'd like to introduce the DIKW classification model which represents the relationships between the follwing:

• Data
• Information
• knowledge
• Wisdom

Typically information is defined in terms of data, knowledge in terms of information, and wisdom in terms of knowledge