What wisdom have we gained from knowledge?

What knowledge have we gained from information?

40 channel pulse laser rainbow hologram (120 x 90 cm) , 1987

In this hologram of 40 self-portraits, the book I am reading is "The Picture History of Inventions. From Plough to Polaris." by Umberto Eco and G. B. Zorzoli. Forty separate holograms are arranged side by side combine spatially and temporally. Each different exposure provides a full holographic portrait. When interacted with by the viewer, the effect is that of a fragmented person flicking through the book. There is no viewpoint from which the viewer can see everything at once, only by moving can one see all the information, and even then both time and space are collaged in a broken evasive form. This is only  reassembled in the mind. It is the antithesis to Renaissance single-point perspective. To the side there is a computer print-out continually printing the title of this piece, akin to a sorcerer's apprentice.

Here, I was thinking about how the medium of holography stores huge amounts of data, especially in relation to the digital technology of the time (and still today) - terabytes of analogue information. This piece was also about the exponential production of information (I had read that in published medical literature doubled in 1971 compared to all previous medical science ).  This questions the notion of Progress and whether technology in itself creates knowledge or wisdom. Even more so today, this expansion of information plays out across the internet and we now depend on the politics of fragile systems and structures which to our peril are held out-with public democratic processes.