Information is God

In the blog today we shall cover how information and its sharing are affecting our lives.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” – John 1.1

By the end of the twentieth century God’s most complex creation has turned the world full circle and the word, that is knowledge or information, has become God again.

The drivers that have fuelled the growth of information in the information age have been the revolutions in data storage and networking technologies.  The transition from the written and printed word to digital data played, perhaps, as important a role in the in bringing about of this age of information as the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel played in distinguishing man from beast, and his ability to move from place to place respectively. 

Scientists and technologists realized that sharing of information was essential for the evolution of this new age, and thus was born its most important vector – the internet. This network of computer networks made sharing of information on a global scale possible; and the phenomenal growth in data transmission speeds made online access a reality.

Every technology has its pitfalls, and the very fact that the internet is free for all to read and store (that is write) on, means that the internet is today full of data, and extracting meaningful and accurate information from it is a challenge. Intelligent search engines retrieve the most popular sites relevant to your query, but even these contain masses of data and going through innumerable sites searching for relevant information has become a tiresome chore.

Necessity is the mother of invention; and the need felt for meaningful information without going through the drill led to the development of Texplicit.  The object of this invention is to address the need for a solution where an artificially intelligent tool does what a human being would require time and patience to do manually. Once done, the application can sort and arrange the information for efficient use.

How Texplicit works:

• It uses the power of popular search engines to extract information,
• Then it selects a number (user gets to choose the number) of relevant links
• Then intelligently scans through the sites selecting the most significant and relevant information
• Presents the selections in very readable formats
• Allows for further analysis through downloads, table extraction and other utility services

There are research databases which contain documents and extracts on specific areas of interest, which have often been subject to peer review. Texplicit does not presume to compete with them in that field. However using these databases restricts one to only the areas covered by them and the information that has been stored there – not the entire contents of the web. Texplicit is therefore not “another one”. It is subject agnostic and addresses the ad hoc searches one often requires outside the area covered by a research database.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” – John 1.1