Created: 2022-05-14 22:58
Lack of food has been the main public health issue for humanity most of our history. Now that we figured out how to mass produce highly caloric food for low costs abundance of food has become the main problem.1
A similar thing is happening with information. We went through the process of only communicating verbally, then only some people knew how to write and had access to hand written books, and eventually everyone has the internet in their pocket.
Is an over abundance of low quality information and straight out wrong information is as bad as no access to information?
We don’t really know what are the implications of the current situation. Elections being greatly influenced by bad information, people making the wrong decisions with their health (to get a vaccine or not).
The Challenge of Boredom in an Age of Automation
The effective loss of cultural traditions on such a scale makes talk of a new Dark Age far from frivolous. Yet this loss coincides with an information glut, with the recovery of the past by specialists and with an unprecedented explosion of knowledge — none of which, however, impinges on everyday experience or shapes popular culture