What a lovely metaphor - now I know, silos play a more important role in modern life that I hadn't thought of before. The history lesson was great. And what a punchline: 'Societies that cannot preserve their knowledge face starvation. Hunger follows decay.'
Maybe you call such attempts destruction vs preservation. The semantic difference depends on the person making the distinction, isn't it? Hunger follows decay seems more certain, though.
In information security I need silos all the time - but the appropriate term is different - compartment. Lets say I have sensitive health personal data - I can NOT comingle that data with other data. Ditto a lot of personal data (Look up GDPR if you want books full of regulations and penalties). Ditto financial data or corporate financial data that reveals how a company is doing. .....
Yes, compartmentalization of data hinders operations - but it also allows survival.
The idiots who what flat access don't understand the consequences of compromise.
Love this perspective. I will never look at a silo (real or organizational) the same way again. Protecting wisdom in the age of AI is more important than ever.
What a lovely metaphor - now I know, silos play a more important role in modern life that I hadn't thought of before. The history lesson was great. And what a punchline: 'Societies that cannot preserve their knowledge face starvation. Hunger follows decay.'
I'm unsure, though, how to distinguish what you've in mind vs echo chambers & misinformation. I try to deal with this related dilemna in https://rajeshachanta.substack.com/p/the-humpty-dumpty-lineage.
Maybe you call such attempts destruction vs preservation. The semantic difference depends on the person making the distinction, isn't it? Hunger follows decay seems more certain, though.
I love this — there are ways that language never stays in its silos does it. Meaning escapes and bleeds or collaborates with words in other silos.
In information security I need silos all the time - but the appropriate term is different - compartment. Lets say I have sensitive health personal data - I can NOT comingle that data with other data. Ditto a lot of personal data (Look up GDPR if you want books full of regulations and penalties). Ditto financial data or corporate financial data that reveals how a company is doing. .....
Yes, compartmentalization of data hinders operations - but it also allows survival.
The idiots who what flat access don't understand the consequences of compromise.
Love this perspective. I will never look at a silo (real or organizational) the same way again. Protecting wisdom in the age of AI is more important than ever.