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Connecting the dots between information and knowledge

Real Knowledge is to know the extent of one´s ignorance Confucius Last week I was perusing Facebook, as I sometimes do when I have some minutes free – more always than sometimes, to be true. I came across with a very interesting image of three clocks, one next to each other. They compared the pace of three different aspects of every day: Time, information and Knowledge Time: the clock hands moved at a regular pace, about 5 seconds to give a full turn. Information: the hands were like crazy, about 20 times the speed of the “time clock” Knowledge: the hands were stuck in number 6, like defeated. They tried to go up, but keep coming back to the 6. I tried to find this gif image again, but I was unable to find it, in spite of googling it by using all the combination of words possible, and rummaging through all my contacts of Facebook. That’s the problem with this amount of information. You can never find it when you really need it. So let`s try to make my poin