Information is Like Water

Is information really like water?

Not long ago, I heard someone say that information is like water; I agree. It always looks for a way to flow, and it's hard to control, it leaks, rains, evaporates, etc. This is an extremely great analogy. In fact, in almost every single challenge that we face with our information, the water analogy holds tight.

Consider if you will, that there have been many people who have sued other folks over water rights. One neighbor might steal water, or someone puts a well on their property in take water from their neighbor's underground resources and reservoir. What's the difference between that and identity theft? Not much.

Ask anyone in the CIA and they will tell you that "loose lips sink ships," that information leaks out, and that's why we have a spy agency in the first place to capture some of the information it leaks, or even help it leak. What is top-secret today, may be on the front pages of the magazines within a month, do you see the point?

Information can also evaporate can't it, after all, the devices we use to store information often fail. And we lose information this way. Perhaps, our hard drive might crash, we might lose a disk of information, or be unable to read it later.

Information is extremely hard to control, information is also valuable like water, and sometimes it seems to have a mind of its own. Information also gets manipulated, transposed, and turned into other things. Just like water can take on additives, and become a fruit drink, a can of beer, or a soda pop in a two-liter bottle. Please consider all this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes if you have diabetes, there are things you need to know; diabetes types

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