Information Resources

Information resources
Everydayness means never asking the fundamental questions:
In his 'essay concerning technology' Heidegger more or less says that the essence of technology is seeing the world as resources.
Interesting, I think - firstly because it says that technology does not 'change the world' rather that a change in the world (a change in our way of seeing/opening the world) gives rise to technology.

So we begin to see the forest as a "standing reserve" - as a 'natural resource', we even see each other as 'human resources'. But he did not mean technology in the way that we have come to use the word today, I think - i.e. to mean information technology. Information technology, I guess, is about converting physical resources to informational resources. And here's the thing:

What do we mean by knowledge management, by wikkis and blogs, by online learning, but the conversion of intellectual resources (constained by their wetware implementation) into something more accessible and exchangeable - that is, translating what people have in their heads into what is stored and reflected on networks? Knowledge, or course, is distibuted intrapersonally and interpersonally - new starters to the BBC must therefore have 'meetings' and get to grips with the 'politics'.

I wonder what term to use to decribe peoples' un-articulated and profoundly emotional reaction to this strange new attractor, slowly sucking the flesh from their bones as the various mechanisms of capture - from CCTV to email - begin to re-articulate them in informational form. Strange echoes congealing in informational space as each of us is brought into focus with increasing clarity on the fast-evolving retinal network.
How long before googling someone is a fuller encounter than meeting them - already sometimes the case in my experience. How long before I will see myself more clearly in the audit trail left in the wake of informational travel than I do in the mirror? Stange that we ourselves are already being relocated without us really being aware of what is going on - where were we told we were going? Many of our most prized possessions simpy discarded along the way... no turning back now, I think.
Heidegger used the term 'falling' - now I am beginning to wonder if 'burning' isn't better.