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IT offers an unlimited access to the vast depositories of data or information in terms of millions. But nobody can make use of more than 10 per cent of such a vast ocean of data or information, for they are fragmented, disorganized, unrelated and inassimilable. Now we can imagine the magnitude of the great wastage of human brainpower and other resources associated with IT for the generation, processing and transfer of such an unusable data and information. Humanity cannot
afford such a loss for long. Hence a great fall of IT is inevitable
within five years. Humanity needs filtered, logically organized or structured and meaningful information. That can be assimilated and retained. That alone becomes the part of the knowledgebase.
Without Knowledge, data or information has no value. IT makes
people rich in information and poor in knowledge. Now even
ordinary housewife needs knowledge in so many domains in
dealing with day-to-day problems. IT has not yet matured enough
to handle or process knowledge and meeting the ever-expanding
knowledge needs of humanity
All efforts in Artificial Intelligence, Experts Systems and the
recent advances in web technology, XML and Semantic Web
could not make much stride. This is because of a lack of proper
nderstanding of the structure, meaningful organization and
representation of knowledge and how knowledge is created,
developed and retained in the brain for further use. When we
study the thinking processes of the human brain, we can
identify well-structured patterns of knowledge processing
and communication of thoughts with a series of well-defined
symbols. The existing pattern of the accessibility of knowledge
and its processing and its creation or generation of man is very
inefficient. Human beings still now could use only less than
8 per cent of the actual potentialities of the brain.
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