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I came across the statement "data is inactive but information is active" while reading differences between data and information. What is meant by this statement?

Vimala Yadav
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    Can you cite the source where you read this? What is the surrounding context? – D.W. Oct 24 '20 at 05:50
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    What does this have to do with C++? – Yuval Filmus Oct 24 '20 at 07:11
  • This question is probably better for philosophy. Data consists of the state of some thing. That thing, some think, can just be. Now, to have information you need to interact with with what contains the data to read the data. In addition, you need to interpret the data according to some encoding. The same data can be interpreted as different piece of information depending on the encoding. For example, a bit of data, can be interpreted as $0$ or $1$, or as True or False, or as $12312$ or $\star$. – plop Oct 24 '20 at 12:51
  • Honestly it sounds like content-free handwaving to me. – j_random_hacker Oct 24 '20 at 17:34

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