Nowadays, we are living in a flood of information since the Internet invented which means we are in a era of information-rich. Numurous information mixed in the Internet that has affected greatly to our life pattern. While we went to library to search information that we need in the past, we now turn on our computer and google it to search the information. Even though we can get information easier and faster and even greater amount of it, I feel more complex to find exact information that I need.
When I google something I feel there is too many words that I suppose to read to check the information would be needed or not. Information that we have is dramatically keep increasing, but the lack of information representation makes me hard to find which information I need.
However, it can’t be organised and represented in a same way to all of the information in the Internet. The reading, “Things that make us smart”, says “that no single format can ever be correct for all purposes.”. I totally agree with the statement, and I want to consider who, when, why, and which purpose people use the Internet. The very usage of the Internet is to achieve information on the Internet which can be an important statistics for analysing things, or a personal questions for asking simple cooking recipes, or finding just funny stories that make you laugh. People have been using same information tool to get an information in different needs. I want to consider how information can be more representative that can be easily understood with a variety of needs.
For example, not just words displayed on the screen, we can provide visual representation to give clues of information where it came from or how the information comes from or which references are included in the information by colour and hierarchy structure visualisation. From the representation of relation of related information, we can follow up related information more accessibly.
Like above rough image when we get the representation of relation between information, we can get into 1 information that we think it is necessary information and we need some more of related information, we can choose 1_1 which is bigger than 1_2 (size can be shown as extent of relation) and if we found that 1_1 is not the information I want, we can change the path we were in to the 1_2, the new path. After we find 1_2 is a good information, we can go forward to 1_2’s (1).
It will be easy to understand where I am in now on the Internet world that can help you to surf information sea in a proper path.
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