High Fidelity

The concept of datavisualisation at first confused me slightly but the more i looked in to it, the more i understood and was impressed with the notion.  The idea that we can use this kind of tool to completely change our attitude to information extraction is phenomenal.  A particularly interesting tool "Pivet" was extremely interesting.  The idea that we can stop browsing from a page to page system and start encompassing all types of content simultaneous would never have occurred to me, nor would i have been able to coneceptualise the reality of it.  I like Flake's reference to the whole being greater than the sum of it parts, and i can certainly see how a program like Pivet demonstrates this.  But also we can learn more about ourselves through this process and start to observe patterns that we might have not previously been able to see.  As Flake said, the way and amount of knowledge we consume will change but with that the wisdom will come as well.