Information Age and Daily Problems
We cannot deny that information is an element of life. You can feel life because of information. Even thanks to information, we can give life to everyone. The existence of the tallest skyscraper in the world is Dubai, Arab women sit in parliamentary seats, and the existence of artificial intelligence is obtained as a result of what is agreed upon as information. In today's digital era, information travels so fast. Information can be found anywhere and anytime.
Social media portals are the main channel for the dissemination of thousands of information. Unsolicited information will appear by default on the home page, and according to the algorithm system, information will appear according to preferences. You, who are sitting relaxing enjoying your morning coffee, are suddenly distracted due to the latest news notifications about today's world of politics. Likewise, at the time of the reunion, you have to give up the intimacy of the reunion due to being busy reading the news of today's fashion trends that are being discussed by most people.
Information is a gift, as well as waste. Information will be a gift if it is true, and will turn like garbage if it contains sheer untruth. The position of the truth of the information in the current emergency is very decisive.
The spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in the early days was successfully suppressed, one of the factors was information other than transparency. South Korea knows exactly how to use information as a shield in fortifying its country from the COVID-19 outbreak.
South Korea has learned a lot from the case of the MERS outbreak that hit the country in 2015. In addition to fast and accurate handling, one of the most important is the flow of communication between the government and the community. The goal is to avoid panic. Ability to communicate all information related to the outbreak in an open, honest and transparent manner so that the public can place high trust in government officials and health authorities.
The massive flow of information we face today is a consequence of the mass use of the internet. It is said to be mass, because users from various community countries around the world use it without knowing the time.
This tremendous flow of information in turn raises a number of new problems, namely the strengthening of the character of ignorance and the collapse of the authority to guarantee truth. The internet factor is not only a significant leap in human life, but at the same time thickens the human deficiency factor.
Perhaps everyone knows what happened, but some turn the view that ignorance and the collapse of the authority of truth have turned into familiar problems that occur in everyday life.
It seems to be natural, so we often see how doctors work hard to filter and clarify the entry and exit of unclear information originating from social media and other platforms. Sure enough, as a result of this information, the level of public trust in the institutions and authorities of the truth dropped drastically. The information succeeded in overturning the institutions and authorities that had been guaranteeing the truth.
In the current information age, people place more trust in themselves than authorities, academics, researchers and even experts.
It does not stop there, the increasing number of consumers of information whose sources are not clearly sourced will hinder the transmission of knowledge and can even destroy knowledge itself. This phenomenon is called by Tom Nichols as the phenomenon of anti-intellectualism.
We may agree, information is knowledge and knowledge is information. However, in the information age there is a confrontation between information and science.
Information on knowledge seems to take a distance. There is a demarcation line between the two. Gradually, knowledge will be separated from information.