Some Thoughts About Information and Time Compression

Information takes place over time. The past recedes from the present and future information is not available. The Internet continually increases the availability and quality of information from the past and makes it more immediate. Models simulate the future with increasing accuracy due to the quality of past information. Information coming from both the simulations of the future as well as higher qualities of the past come into the present at an ever-increasing rate. Therefore information has a time compression effect on meaning-making. This is to say that meaning is being freed of time constraints and starting to loop back into itself. That is why I say that we are no longer in a paradigm shift or an episteme but rather that we are living at the end of any such time-related concepts as regards knowledge. Within the domain of information, the effects of time passing diminish. And, we can go on from there.