The Perceptions of Information Storage and Money
Ever notice that as the capacity of data storage increases--and people's perception of it also increases, the value of money decreases in conjunction? I don't mean the actual monetary value of money necessa
Numbers don’t really translate anymore whatsoever. We are numbed by the media, and technology in particular, bombarding us with numerical values which have no personal value at all. I have never seen a million dollars, most people have not. I have never been to France, but I know what the Eiffel Tower looks like. Technology separates us from that tangible understanding, that personal knowledge of something which gives an identity to a thought rather than some abstract idea which most people are too “ADD” to contemplate.
I don’t know if your first sentence, “the capacity of data storage increases–and people’s perception of it also increases, the value of money decreases in conjunction” has a correlation at all; however, there is definitely a depreciation for the value of numbers/ammounts/these symbols that used to mean something.
@Trysta
Thanks for the reply.
Good points. I agree with you that I don’t think my opening sentence necessarily correlated with each other, more like two observations I noticed at the same time and decided to put them together.
I really liked your France-Eiffel tower analogy.