Informação vs sentido

Ontem, no final de uma reunião comentaram o facto do nosso blogue disponibilizar muita informação, o que não será muito comum.

Depois, meti-me no carro e dirigi-me a Vizela, uma localidade no norte do país. Enquanto trocava o almoço por uma sandes descansava, lendo mais um pouco do livro "Presentation Zen" de Garr Reynolds.

Foi então que dei de caras com este trecho:
"People who possess loads of information in a particular field have historically been in hot demand and able to charge high fees for access to their stuffed, fact-filled brains. This was so because the facts used to be difficult to access.
Not any more. In an era where information about seemingly anything is only a mouse click away, just possessing information alone is hardly the differentiator it used to be. What is more important to day than ever before is the ability to synthesize the facts and give them context and perspective. Picasso once said that "computers are useless for they can only give answers." Computers and Google can indeed give us the routine information and facts that we neeed.
What we want from people who stand before us and give a talk is to give us that which data and information alone cannot: meaning."

Vizela impressionou-me... fábricas abandonadas, ervas altas e secas a invadirem o que foram jardins fabris, monumentos a comemorar os 20, ou 30, ou 40 anos de empresas que já não têm alma. Impressionante!