In September 2006, I spoke at the IMN Cyber Security Summit in NYC.
As I was traveling in the subway on Friday, I noticed a lady with a bag that said, “Information Management Network. 2006 Cyber Security Conference. New York. London.” See grainy cell phone post pictures.
The bag was for conference attendees and I just had the feeling that she wasn’t present at the conferences in either New York or London.
It led me to reformulate a postulate I devised a long time ago:
Invariably the release of information to the public sphere will result in its dissemination, interpretation, re-interpretation and use by parties, both intended and unintended, in ways both expected and unexpected.
This happens both in a physical sense and a non-physical sense.
The correlating thesis is that:
The results of the interpretation and re-interpretation of the information released happens relative to the system of truth under which that information is acquired.
And, who would have thought so much could be gleaned from a promotional item in a NYC subway?
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