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From: ken@reuse.USWEST.COM (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Support for sci.commtech
Message-ID: <238@reuse.USWEST.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 17:38:54 GMT
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In article <18108@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> scratch@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Steven J Owens) writes:
>In article <235@reuse.USWEST.COM> ken@reuse.UUCP (Kenny A. Chaffin) writes:
>
>"Information age" does not imply any transfer at all.  Think about it.  
>Communication, on the other hand, logically implies that information must
>be transferred.  That is, after all, the definition of communication, is
>it not?  
>
>
 I would agree with your definition of communication, but the thing I was
getting at was the term _Communication Age_. I am not familiar with this
terminology, whereas Information Age appears to be widely used to mean
the increasing amount of information flow which is causing major changes
in society reguardless of the method of communicating that information, 
even though that too is important.
	I was curious as to your meaning for communication age. One can
communicate noise, but it seems that the information that is being 
communicated is what is causing change in society etc.
	Maybe I should explain that last. The Stuff that is communicated
is not information unless it is meaningful to the receipent. Of course
dealing with this issue is a lot like the old question - if a tree falls
in the forest...
Anyway I would be curious to understand your definition of the communication
age.

Thanks,
KAC
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Kenny A. Chaffin                           ...uswat!reuse!ken
U S WEST Advanced Technologies                (303) 930-5356
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