JP Rangaswami: Information is food

http://www.ted.com How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.

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[Nicholas Pendergast]

"What would happen if one were to have 31 days straight consumption of Fox News?"

The Tea Party

[sylve6]

I guess massage is stop consume information from main stream media it is not nourishing your life.

Listen to your government is like eating in MacDonald’s you will get sick for some ones profit.

[Renata Gallon Possamai]

a very interesting point of view that makes you think

[BrennanAndrewWittig]

I love how the audience intellects reacts to the Fox news question. Information is the Conservative's wrost foe.

[RickDangerous3]

Don't eat the wrong stuff!

[JayantJChannel]

JP gave a really different perspective on food and of course information.

[WRITINGUNDEROATH]

Like being submersed in whipped cream.

[061305]

information is food, but its such little food that it doesnt even matter. Information is more like the key to utilizing the bodies food by stimulating the brain thus getting particles where they need to be for proper function. but its the body that amplifies the signal thats why when the body has stoped functioning (e.g. it dies) information no longer does anything to the body. infomation is more like a meal plan then a meal

[wmbgcoupon]

I would chew on it a little longer.......That is what I would do....neat concept

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

TED is the only information diet I need :)

[Anwar Barbouti]

Viewing information the way we look at food...very interesting perspective.

[twistedbass15]

GENIUS !!