Information

I have a few minutes before I have to go to a presentation by the Chief of Naval Research about technology development in the Navy. I was just thinking today how there is never enough time to absorb all the information I want to know and then to disseminate it back out to help people. With the Internet, magazine subscriptions (Time and Texas Monthly for me), television (Meet the Press on Sundays), newspaper (The Annapolis Capital is the local paper, and I get the Austin American Statesman by e-mail), especially Google and Wikipedia (they take up their own category because of the revolution that they have caused in the Internet), and, of course, our wonderful libraries and book-stores, there is far too much information for any one person to be up on it all.

I really wish I could know it all, and I try very hard to read at least a little something every night, but sometimes it seems like I can't ever get it all in. It's frustrating not to be able to read all the books I want to--that was the thing I said I missed most about Plebe Summer--and only now, this year (only having technical classes with problems and no reading homework) do I have the time to look at the things I want to. I wish it were enough. I've got to go (time is always pressing, isn't it?).