The Velocity of Information

David P. Perrodin

doi:10.5771/9781475865462

Summary

As chaos erupts, alerts screech on our cell phones and torrents of conflicting-yet-urgent messages gush from media outlets. What is the magnitude of the crisis? What is its cause? And what should people do to protect themselves?

The speed and direction of these details is known as the velocity of information. It overwhelms and distresses people who have not built a network of trustworthy sources to traverse disorder.

Velocity of Information offers understanding to manage chaos and our complex reactions to crisis situations influenced by bias and propaganda. Recognizing indicators to judge the severity of an incident, understanding human predispositions, and joining a member check network to gauge real-time observations from people in your network provide direction to respond to the reality of a situation with impartiality, thus improving outcomes.

This book also provides a novel framework for understanding chaos based on duration, location, and complexity. Understanding how human cognitive limitations affect individual and group human behavior during different stages of chaos allows readers to use the tools in this book to avoid hysteria and optimize responses to emergency events.

Utilizing personal interviews and explorations of historical and contemporary events, Velocity of Information provides a functional and realistic roadmap with specific, actionable guidance on how to navigate chaos.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6544-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6546-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 188
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. 1. Evaluating Chaos Events No access
  2. Overarching Concepts and the Seven Parts of This Book No access
  3. Notes No access
1. The Torus No access
2. The Eternal Present No access
3. Good Morning, You’ve Been Sorted: Essential or NonEssential No access
4. Physics of Time No access
5. Psychological Time No access
6. Time Dilation No access
7. Situational Awareness: Gathering Indicators with Joe Dolio No access
8. Cognitive Offloading No access
9. Continuous Partial Attention: Linda Stone No access
10. Technology Adoption and Disintermediation No access
11. Notes No access
1. The Race for Information: Nikolai Razouvaev No access
2. No Bars behind Bars: Larry Lawton No access
3. Juan Browne, the Oroville Dam, and the Citizen-As-Journalist No access
4. Biases No access
5. Negative Vicarious Rehearsal No access
6. Conjunction Fallacy: Mr. F. Had a Heart Attack No access
7. Notes No access
1. Force Multipliers No access
2. Decision-Making Basics No access
3. Left to His Own Devices: Charles Mak No access
4. Bryan in the Bronx No access
5. The Law of Small Numbers—Having Confidence in Findings No access
6. Building the Member Check Network No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Breaking Point No access
2. Wet Bulbs No access
3. Breaking Parkinson’s Law in Chicago No access
4. Dr. John Appel, World War II, and the Lesson of Finite Voltage No access
5. Clay Martin, Death by Dr. Pepper, and the God Complex No access
6. Beware of the God Complex No access
7. All Hands on Deck: Robert Travis No access
8. Civilian Morale during Uncertain Times No access
9. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats—The Medium Is the Magic No access
10. Committee for National Morale No access
11. Dr. David Mays—Population-Level Finite Voltage and Politics Prolonged a Pandemic No access
12. The Event 201 Pandemic Exercise No access
13. Home Front Morale in 2020—Fitness and Fortitude No access
14. Healthcare Heroes and the TikTok Dance Craze No access
15. Disrupting Finite Voltage: Twelve Ways to Become Resilient during Uncertain Times No access
16. Notes No access
1. Hygee: The Danish Mindset No access
2. Pooches, Pillows, Pools, and Puzzles No access
3. Autonomous Zones, Morgan Rogue, and Vindication of the Prepper No access
4. Notes No access
1. Force Majeures and Black Swans No access
2. Crisis or Chaos No access
3. Brief and Localized Chaos (1–5 Days): Certainty No access
4. Intermediate and Regional Chaos (6–90 Days): Moderate Certainty No access
5. Extended and International Chaos (90 Days to Indeterminate Duration): Uncertainty No access
6. Comorbid Chaos (Indeterminate Duration): Uncertainty No access
7. The Velocity of Information in 2020 No access
8. Notes No access
1. Shocks to the System No access
2. Emotional Support Peacock No access
3. Vocabulary to Lexicon: 2020 Changed the Dictionary and the News Like Never Before No access
4. Remote Everything—We Were Going to Get Here Anyway No access
5. Just Do It: Compliance Behavior to Avoid Consequences No access
6. Taking Our Lives Back No access
7. Choose Your Own Health Adventure No access
8. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Index No access Pages 181 - 186
1. Note No access