Information Overload
This cluster centers on the overwhelming abundance of information in the modern era, its challenges in filtering quality content from noise, distinguishing truth from falsehood, and the cognitive impacts like reduced discernment and information addiction.
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Might be time to reflect on how much useless information we consume
my money is on information overload... just one day to the other so much content is created that there is no way to know what's right or wrong. You can find everything and everything has the same production. so there is no way to tell truth from fake. sex possible tomorrow, content overflow today
This is a long-winded way of saying that people have unprecedented access to information yet lack the ability to adequately filter or contextualize it, leading to foolishness.
I think there is too much information in general and it's affecting us in unpredictable ways!
There is such a thing as being crippled by information.
I think this is a relatively new phenomenon. 20 years ago you had to try hard to find an exhaustive amount of information on any specific topic, and what you did find tended to have been through a few gatekeepers. Now you can fritter away the days reading "useful" information because it's so prolific and readily available almost anywhere you are.
Has one ever had too much information?
There's some sort of lesson regarding information overload to be learned here... I'm sure of it. :-)
There's too much information available to read everything carefully.
I think it's more the way you access the information than the information itself.