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Information warfare - Information | | Information warfare - Information: Encyclopedia II - Information warfare - Information | | It is impossible to discuss information warfare meaningfully without rigorously defining the central concept: information.
Information derives from phenomena. Phenomena, observable facts or events, are everything that happens around us. Phenomena must be perceived and interpreted to become information. Information, then, is the result of two things:
1) perceived phenomena (data) and
2) the instructions required ...
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| | | Information warfare: Encyclopedia II - Information warfare - Information
Information warfare - Information
It is impossible to discuss information warfare meaningfully without rigorously defining the central concept: information.
Information derives from phenomena. Phenomena, observable facts or events, are everything that happens around us. Phenomena must be perceived and interpreted to become information. Information, then, is the result of two things:
- 1) perceived phenomena (data) and
- 2) the instructions required to interpret that data and give it meaning.
This distinction is important, and easily encompassed by a familiar paradox: If a tree falls, but no one was around to hear it, did it make a noise? The falling tree caused pressure waves in the atmosphere, a phenomenon. Noise, the information denoting a falling tree, occurs when someone's ear detects the pressure waves, creating data, and the brain's instructions manipulate that data into the sound recognizable as a falling tree. Within that person's context, there is no falling tree until the person hears (or sees) it.
Phenomena become information through observation and analysis. Therefore, information is an abstraction of phenomena. Information is the result of our perceptions and interpretations, regardless of the means. As falling trees make clear, to define information requires only two characteristics:
- Information consists of data and instructions.
Note that the definition for information is absolutely distinct from technology. However, what we can do with information, and how fast we can do it, is very dependent on technology. Technology dramatically enhances our observational means, expands and concentrates data storage, and accelerates instruction processing.
- An Information Function is any activity involving the acquisition, transmission, storage, or transformation of information.
For example, the system that tells a machine to stamp eighty hubcaps is performing an information function. The sheet metal press stamping those hubcaps is not.
Other related archives1999, Electronic warfare, Gulf War, Information, Information Age, Intelligence, Logistics, Nations, Psychological operations, Quality, around 1970, campaign, corporations, crackers, disinformation, electromagnetic pulse weapons, fog of war, gas, information, oil, phenomena, propaganda, radio, sine qua non, strategy, telephone, television, virus, warfare
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Information", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
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