The statistics for the increase in information on the internet are amazing. I know that statistics are supposed to be used as proof of whatever you want to prove. Looking at the increase in information flow around the world is good way to visualise the meaning of a geometric progression.

Given the  way in which news spreads, there is a great deal of difficulty in judging the veracity of the written word. Something can be said  by one person and because it is then copied by many thousands of others it can have the appearance of being correct. This is the basis of fake news, and getting back to the actual source can be difficult.

This post is actually about providing original content. I wrote it entirely out of my own head, without having to go and look things up, and certainly without having recourse to copying anything written by somebody else.