"Information Ecosystems" and the political divide

[Revoltingest]

Info several months to several years old is fresh.
2000 years? Long past its best-used-by-date.

 

[Rival]

Info several months to several years old is fresh.
2000 years? Long past its best-used-by-date.

I think it depends on what one classes as 'information'. Magna Carta is nearly 1,000 years old but what it says is still seen as the basis of a lot of English common law and thought. If we can extract some use from it in a moral, judicial or cultural sense, I think it can be classed as a useful kind of information. Similarly the Qur'an is useful to me not because I'm a Muslim, but because it contains stories that were floating around Arabia at that time in history and gives us insight into a rich cultural religious tapestry largely whitewashed by modern Christianity, but preserved in the Qur'an.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think it depends on what one classes as 'information'. Magna Carta is nearly 1,000 years old but what it says is still seen as the basis of a lot of English common law and thought. If we can extract some use from it in a moral, judicial or cultural sense, I think it can be classed as a useful kind of information. Similarly the Qur'an is useful to me not because I'm a Muslim, but because it contains stories that were floating around Arabia at that time in history and gives us insight into a rich cultural religious tapestry largely whitewashed by modern Christianity, but preserved in the Qur'an.

The Magna Carta is a set of values rather than info.
And the Koran is as valid now as it was then.