There are no definitions today for the term"information"! They say that there are more than a hundred of them. What does it mean? Probably, the fact that specialists who study this term do not always fully understand the subject of their research. In order to understand what the word really means, one should refer to its etymology.
Linguists believe that it has its rootsgoes back to the East and is formed from the Arabic verb "Qarafa", meaning "to know, to know". The ancient Greeks did not understand how to correctly read the word, so just in case, read it in both directions. So it turned out: form and morph. Synonyms. Other education from: marifa, this is "what I know". There is a very significant difference between the two types of information, often not distinguished by specialists. Information as a distinction between things and concepts, as well as information in the quality of knowledge. But we will not go so deep into the meaning of this word. Perhaps, it is much more important today, what role this term began to play in our world. And its value can not be underestimated.
Information is more than just knowledge.Possessing it provides tremendous opportunities both in business and in politics. It has become an important resource of the state. The information is assessed in the same way (if not higher), like the basic natural, economic, labor, material resources. A number of psychologists say that the rational humanity is slowly but surely transformed into an information one. And by the way, along with the traditional method of managing society (the same administrative and organizational) and individuals, a special method of centralizing the impact on the population is gaining popularity: the method of information governance. And in fact. With the development of the media, and in particular of the Internet, the situation has developed that information is an instrument of influence on the minds of consumers. Therefore, she began to meet us everywhere. It has become so much that consumers have to filter it every day, filtering out "garbage". Otherwise, you can get under its influence and turn into a zombie, completely controlled entity.
In our impetuous age, the notion of"Entropy of information". What is it, you ask? This is a criterion for the chaos of information, the uncertainty of the appearance of a symbol of the primary alphabet. In the absence of information losses, it is numerically equal to the amount of information per symbol of the transmitted message.
The West has long appreciated the importance of information.The administration of the United States at the state level sees it as a strategic resource. It can be obtained by processing and analyzing data using a specialized analysis system. Naturally, the protection of information in the US is at a very high level. This is constantly engaged, perhaps, the most secret services - the FBI and the CIA. Thus, in the 21st century information is both a resource of the state, and a subject of bargaining with other states. It became as expensive as oil or gold.
