“Information is available at the speed of light, but knowledge takes much more time to absorb”
I’ve been working with a television show host, defining the needs, direction and just plain facts regarding ‘where the youth’ hang out in society today. In my search for information regarding logistics and statistics on the above, I”ve been overwhelmed with the information available. The days of utilizing the all-knowing Dewey decimal system to find the perfect source for vital information is dead and gone. Alas, members of this current generation don’t even know who Dewey was, let alone enter a Library. I began to think of how this prior process was part of the ‘search’. It took time. We had to absorb pieces to receive the whole. All the while building the knowledge blocks along the way to complete the entire journey. Today, the whole doesn’t have to be read to receive the piece. It’s available at the click of a button. It’s just an ‘ask’ away on the web. In my research, I’m finding a generation filled with ‘pieces’, never quite finding or seemingly needing all the parts. My daughter, Sarah, creatively put together a puzzle for a Christmas present for me. (I love puzzles) She, on purpose left off the outer pieces to give it an unfinished look before she had it framed. I love it. It does remind me daily, though, that I’ll never completely know what the entire picture would have looked like. Knowledge is like that. Creatively His, Susan
