One of the major traps of the Information Superhighway is that there is simply too much information. Without getting into the philosophy of it, the world has come to believe that information is, of itself, valuable. Information is useless without the framework that contains it. Information is the BASIS of what we know. The next step is knowledge, that which can be LEARNED from the information. But this is also misconstrued in our screwed-up system. The last, and most important step in this process, is WISDOM. Wisdom is taking the information, figuring out what it MEANS and making informed, wise decisions based on that process.
And this is why so much of what we see on the internet is certainly informative but, at the same time, functionally worthless. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the myriad of videos posted by people who have a surfeit of information but no wisdom. You know the sort of thing I mean, “How to turn your shifting spanner into a shifting spanner by cutting it up, rewelding the pieces back together a different way and ending up with a basically useless tool that doesn’t do the job as well as the shifting spanner with which the video began.” The fact that this process is accompanied by inane music, takes 3 hours to accomplish and costs, in terms of man-hours, about 20 times what it cost to buy the spanner in the first place is conveniently ignored.
The video to which I have provided the link below is a classic case in point. Now there is no doubt about this dude’s mechanical and engineering abilities, I mean the guy rocks. Watch it all the way through, though, and you will see why I have entitled my article accordingly. This extraordinary process achieves, at inordinate effort and, no doubt expense, virtually nothing. The engine, while clever, is of a very basic specification, it is a “special” and would probably not be able to be registered and, for a fraction of the expense and time, a vastly better result could have been achieved by simply going down to the wreckers, buying an FZR250 or CBR250 4 cylinder engine and mounting it into the frame that has been used here.
Of course you COULD, but, why would you WANT to?