Ozmosys: A Faster Way to Absorb Information

摘要

What's not to like about osmosis? Better known for its fanciful definition as the apparently effortless absorption of ideas, feelings, attitudes, etc. than for its more practical scientific definition, the word conjures images of learning made easy. And this concept, which in childhood might have been manifested as sleeping on a textbook and waking up with all of the answers for that day's quiz, takes on its adult form in the hope that the PC/Web-enabled "information age" will somehow magically make us all the wiser. But as we all know, the problem of info glut has, in many cases, superceded the benefits of today's seemingly limited access to content. Thus, a number of smart companies have set their sites on not only taming the beast, but finding a way to channel its energies into helping information and business professionals best put information to work. Privately held Ozmosys, founded in 1999, prefers the Cambridge International Dictionary of English's definition of osmosis: "the way in which ideas and information gradually spread between people." Interestingly, Ozmosys hardly seems content to let information do anything gradually.