Information overload, Or IO, is still a term I use. I suppose now it is replaced by TMI. But the premise is the same. Too much information to process at one time.
IMO, information is neither good or bad. It is how you process it that counts.
You might be onto something there and it does dovetail into the premise of the book
Future Shock. I'll toss out a historical perspective as food for thought.
The Gutenberg printing press is often cited by historians as the catalyst for a world-wide sea change of attitudes among the little people. Prior to that invention there were essentially no books. What few existed were created by hand, written one letter at a time. Only the wealthiest individuals could afford a book so they were concentrated in the hands of the elite ruling class.
The peeps received their education largely at churches. Power was therefore concentrated in the hands of church leaders and kings and queens. Then along comes the printing press and all sorts of information was suddenly available to all the people, not just the elite. What followed was great upheaval as the peeps began to realize the ruling class was feeding them a big pile of B.S. They began to think for themselves.
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Fast forward to the internet. It is similar to the Gutenberg printing press in that it vastly expanded the amount of information available to one and all. So we have these two moments in human history that amount to game changers as it relates to the exchange of information.
Gutenberg changed the landscape and flipped everything on its head. Will the internet do the same?
