1. Emerging Technologies
Watch Assignment
Chapter 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM&feature=youtu.be
1. Name two ways that digital information is different from physical information.
Physical information
-it is a thing
-It has a logical place
-it can be found on a shelf
-it can be found in a filing system such as a filing cabinet or on film that is stored in a
filing cabinet.
-has to filed in a category so it can be found
-it requires experts
-and it is still hard to find
-managing information is managing categories in order to be able to retrieve it.
2. Digital information is different, it takes different forms.
-It has no material form
-Digital information has no material form
-Digital information has no fixed form
-So we can rethink information beyond material constraints
-Information is on a Web Site the World Wide Web and there is unlimited places to find
information without having to spend time searching physical files.
2. The video makes the statements: There is no “top” to the World Wide Web. There is no
shelf: the links alone are enough. What does this say about how information is organized
on the Web?
-Categories, links, and tags
-yahoo says it can organize things with no physical constraints, add the shelf back
-since then the web has been challenging our most basic assumptions. We learned how
we might not need complex hierarchies to fine information.
-links alone are enough
-there are roughly 15 times as many as the next largest encyclopedia Britannica
-we organize information ourselves through file folders.
3. The video makes the statement: We no longer find information; together we can make it
find us. How?

2. -there are blogs and web sites that bring the information to us all we have to do is type in
a specific topic or certain key words and the information is at our fingertips without
having to even leave our workspace,
-we can organize without material, restricted categories, bounded categories, and limited
categories. Everything is unlimited.