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Information Has an Expiration Date
Filed Under (analogy, cyborg anthropology, experience economy, nature) by Amber Case on 04-05-2008

Information that is stale, unused, not purchased by the attention of those browsing the supermaket shelves of the attention economy superstore.

The Importance of Dynamic Data

We, like cats, care nothing for a dead feather–it is those ideas, trends, people that are dynamic and moving that we chase and chase.

New Information is Built Upon the Old

orange juice - expiration date: August 30th, 2008
Creative Commons License photo credit: viZZZual.com
Information falls from the branches of the tree of collective participation and buries those already fallen documents with a fresh layer of compost. Once in a while, a solitary wanderer trudges the old documents as hey amble slowly through their intellectual journey. In the end, the old ideas become fertile ground for new ones.

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