What is information?
Here is an assortment of definitions. Some are from dictionaries and others are quotations from ‘expert sources’.
Which could you agree with?
- Information is the act of telling or imparting knowledge.
- Information is knowledge acquired from another.
- Information is knowledge you can convey to others.
- Information is facts communicated or learned.
- Information is data interpreted to be useful.
- Information is facts and figures.
- Information is the ‘lifeblood of 21st century society’.
- Information is power.
Think about this:
In fact, information is any and all of these things.
To find out more about how we use all this information have a look at Everyday uses of information.